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CVE-2018-5189

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5189 is a race condition vulnerability in Jungo Windriver 12.5.1, allowing a local attacker to trigger a buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service or potential system privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there has been some community discussion, including a detailed walkthrough on Reddit.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jungo:windriver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
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
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-43494 · Jan 10, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 16,985 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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

exploit-db.com / exploits/43494
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
fidusinfosec.com / jungo-windriver-code-execution-cve-2018-5189
Third Party Advisory