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CVE-2018-18898

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18898 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker versions 4.1.13 through 4.4, as well as products from Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5 due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service through an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing. While the EPSS score is low, indicating a low probability of exploitation in the wild, there is no known exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog. Furthermore, there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.1.13, <= 4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0236 is in the 68th 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

bestpractical.com / download-page
ProductRelease Notes
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPJVDT77ZPRU5Z2BEMZM7EBY6WZHUATZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YR46PPHBEM76DNN4DEQMAYIKLCO3TQU2
usn.ubuntu.com / 4517-1
Third Party Advisory