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CVE-2018-6018

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6018 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Tinder iOS and Android applications, allowing attackers to extract sensitive user information. By analyzing the fixed sizes of HTTPS responses, an attacker sniffing network traffic can compromise user privacy. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), indicating a high impact on confidentiality and integrity with low attack complexity, although it is not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog. Despite no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions across various platforms.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinder:tinder:-:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tinder:tinder:-:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 36,821 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

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

checkmarx.com / 2018/01/23/tinder-someone-may-watching-swipe-2
Third Party Advisory
wired.com / story/tinder-lack-of-encryption-lets-strangers-spy-on-swipes
Press/Media CoverageThird Party Advisory