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CVE-2018-0381

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-0381 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Aironet Series Access Points. An authenticated, adjacent attacker can trigger a deadlock condition by rapidly transitioning between SSIDs while replicating specific traffic patterns, causing the device to unexpectedly reload. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) requires authenticated access and adjacency, but its impact is a complete denial of service. There is no known public exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.2\(166.0\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_access_points:8.2\(166.0\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2\(167.3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_access_points:8.2\(167.3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3\(133.0\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_access_points:8.3\(133.0\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3\(141.10\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_access_points:8.3\(141.10\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.5\(120.0\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:aironet_access_points:8.5\(120.0\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 314 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181017-aironet-dos
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105685
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1041929
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry