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CVE-2018-11518

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-11518 describes a phreaking vulnerability in HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP, allowing attackers to record and replay audio frequencies to trigger service activations. This request-forgery issue arises when the IVR system's expected DTMF signals for activation are predictable, lacking a nonce for verification. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has received some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hcltech:legacy_ivr_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

datarift.blogspot.com / 2018/05/CVE-2018-11518-abusing-ivr-systems.html
Third Party Advisory
twitter.com / mishradhiraj_/status/1001664204485652482
Third Party Advisory
twitter.com / mishradhiraj_/status/1001664440759091207
Third Party Advisory
virgil-cj.blogspot.com / 2018/05/0day-legacy-ivr-lets-phreak.html
Third Party Advisory