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CVE-2018-8074

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8074 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Yii 2.x versions prior to 2.0.15, specifically when used with the Elasticsearch extension. It allows remote attackers to inject unintended search conditions, a variant of the CVE-2018-7269 attack, due to improper input sanitization (CWE-94). The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 8.1 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requiring high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yiiframework:yii:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: yiisoft/yii2-devFixed in: 2.0.15
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: yiisoft/yii2-elasticsearchFixed in: 2.0.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-m2p5-fwp2-qcw2high

Yii Framework Code Injection

May 24, 2022

References

yiiframework.com / news/168/releasing-yii-2-0-15-and-database-extensions-with-security-fixes
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