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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:modbustools:modbus_slave:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.