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CVE-2018-12115

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-12115 is a high-severity out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Node.js versions prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4, and 10.9.0, specifically when using UCS-2 encoding. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by manipulating Buffer#write() to write outside of allocated memory. Despite its high CVSS score of 7.5, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.14.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0.0, < 10.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0803 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (14)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Node.js 10Fixed in: rhoar-nodejs-1:10.9.0-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Node.js 8Fixed in: rhoar-nodejs-1:8.11.4-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:3.11.1539805268-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs8-nodejs-0:8.11.4-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs8-nodejs-0:8.11.4-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-0:6.11.3-7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs8-nodejs-0:8.11.4-1.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4Fixed in: nodejs
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-12115Important

nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding

Aug 11, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2552
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2553
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2944
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2949
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3537
Third Party Advisory
nodejs.org / en/blog/vulnerability/august-2018-security-releases
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-48
securityfocus.com / bid/105127
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry