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CVE-2018-7687

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-7687 is a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability in the Micro Focus Client for OES, specifically affecting versions prior to 2 SP4 IR8a. A local attacker can exploit this flaw in ncfsd.sys to achieve privilege escalation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no public exploit intelligence, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:client:*:*:*:*:*:open_enterprise_server:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:client:2.0:sp3:*:*:*:open_enterprise_server:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 68th 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

bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
novell.com / support/kb/doc.php