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CVE-2018-18759

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18759 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Modbus Slave 7.0.0, part of the modbustools suite. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a critical denial-of-service impact (A:H) that can be triggered remotely without authentication (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). While not observed in active exploitation (KEV: No) and lacking widespread community discussion or media coverage, a proof-of-concept exploit for denial of service is publicly available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:modbustools:modbus_slave:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-45732 · Oct 29, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0875 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/150015/Modbus-Slave-7.0.0-Denial-Of-Service.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exploit-db.com / exploits/45732
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry