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CVE-2018-10868

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10868 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Red Hat Certification 7, stemming from insufficient restrictions on recursive entity definitions in XML documents. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted XMLRPC requests, leading to a "Billion Laughs Attack" and causing a high-impact denial of service. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certification:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0110 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-certification

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10868Moderate

redhat-certification: billion laugh attack when getting the status of a host

Jun 21, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2018-10868
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory