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CVE-2018-3985

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-3985 is a critical double free vulnerability affecting the mdnscap binary in the CUJO Smart Firewall. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by sending a specially crafted mDNS packet with an invalid query name, causing a memory space to be freed twice. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, the vulnerability has received limited community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:getcujo:smart_firewall:7003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

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

talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0653
ExploitThird Party Advisory