CVE-2018-6290 describes a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability affecting Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway version 1.1. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) allows an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability is significant, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (e.g., Metasploit, ExploitDB), or notable community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kaspersky:secure_mail_gateway:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.