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CVE-2018-1049

23
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0721 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: systemd-0:219-42.el7_4.7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-1049Moderate

systemd: automount: access to automounted volumes can lock up

May 9, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0260
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3558-1
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1041520
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry