CVE-2018-6916 is a critical vulnerability affecting FreeBSD versions before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p7, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p7, and 10.3-RELEASE-p28. It involves improper validation of IPsec packets from trusted hosts and a use-after-free flaw in the IPsec AH handling code. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this network-exploitable vulnerability requires no user interaction and could lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including system crashes. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.0, < 11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.3:p28:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.4:p7:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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.