CVE-2018-1049 describes a race condition in systemd versions prior to 234, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. This flaw occurs between .mount and .automount units, potentially causing kernel-held mountpoints and leading to a denial of service as processes attempting to use these mounts will hang. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), it has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, resulting in a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 234CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:systemd_project:systemd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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