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CVE-2018-15503

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15503 describes a deserialization vulnerability in Swoole version 4.0.4, specifically within its unpack implementation, due to insufficient size checks. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to craft a malicious serialized object, leading to a denial of service (SEGV) with high impact on availability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) and is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:swoole:swoole:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0227 is in the 67th 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / swoole/swoole-src/commit/4cdbce5d9bf2fe596bb6acd7d6611f9e8c253a76
PatchVendor Advisory
github.com / swoole/swoole-src/issues/1882
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
x-c3ll.github.io / posts/swoole-deserialization-cve-2018-15503
Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory