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CVE-2018-18981

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18981 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Services Platform versions 2.90 and earlier. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted packets to service ports, causing excessive memory consumption. This can lead to a partial or complete denial of service for the affected services, rated as a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.90CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rockwellautomation:factorytalk_services_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0387 is in the 81st 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-18-331-02
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/106279
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry