CVE-2018-17160 is a critical vulnerability in FreeBSD versions prior to 11.2-STABLE(r341486) and 11.2-RELEASE-p6, specifically affecting the bhyve hypervisor. It stems from insufficient bounds checking, allowing a guest operating system to overwrite host memory, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution on the host as root. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no user interaction and allowing a remote attacker to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential impact remains critical.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.