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CVE-2018-18959

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18959 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Epson WorkForce WF-2861 printers running specific firmware versions. An unauthenticated attacker can crash the device, requiring a reboot, by sending an oversized "Bonjour Service Location" value (exceeding 251 bytes) to the AirPrint settings webpage. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.48_lq22i3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:epson:epson_workforce_wf-2861_firmware:10.48_lq22i3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.51.lq20i6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:epson:epson_workforce_wf-2861_firmware:10.51.lq20i6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.52.lq17iaCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:epson:epson_workforce_wf-2861_firmware:10.52.lq17ia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0116 is in the 42nd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / epistemophilia/CVEs/blob/master/Epson-WorkForce-WF2861/CVE-2018-18959/poc-cve-2018-18959.py
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