CVE-2018-6183 describes a local privilege escalation or denial-of-service vulnerability in BitDefender Total Security 2018. This flaw stems from an insecurely created named pipe, granting "Everyone" full access and allowing local users to impersonate pipes. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2018CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:total_security:2018:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.