CVE-2018-19862 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting MiniShare 1.4.1 and earlier, a discontinued product. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted, long HTTP POST request. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among threat actors.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:minishare_project:minishare:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.