CVE-2018-6400 describes a local privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability in Kingsoft WPS Office Free version 10.2.0.5978. This flaw stems from an insecurely created named pipe, "\\.\pipe\WPSCloudSvr\WpsCloudSvr," which grants full access to the "Everyone" user group, allowing local users to impersonate pipes. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.2.0.5978CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kingsoftstore:wps_office_free:10.2.0.5978:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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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.