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CVE-2018-3970

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-3970 is a memory disclosure vulnerability in Sophos HitmanPro.Alert 3.7.6.744, allowing an attacker to trigger the return of uninitialized kernel memory through a specially crafted IRP request. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this local attack requires low privileges and no user interaction, leading to high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.7.6.744CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:hitmanpro.alert:3.7.6.744:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0635
ExploitThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105743
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry