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CVE-2018-19502

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19502 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability found in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) version 2.8.1, specifically within the excluded_channels() function. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:audiocoding:freeware_advanced_audio_decoder_2:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 11,615 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/faad
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00033.html
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/28
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202006-17
sourceforge.net / p/faac/bugs/240
ExploitThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4522