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CVE-2018-5790

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5790 describes a remote, unauthenticated Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. This flaw allows an attacker on the adjacent network to disrupt the Radio Interface Module (RIM) on a WiNG Access Point by sending crafted packets over the MINT protocol. With a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), the vulnerability has high availability impact, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0, < 5.8.6.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:extremewireless:wing:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.9.0, < 5.9.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:extremewireless:wing:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 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

gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com / articles/Vulnerability_Notice/VN-2018-003
MitigationVendor Advisory