CVE-2018-8852 affects Philips e-Alert Units (non-medical, R2.1 and prior) and allows an attacker to steal authenticated user sessions without invalidating existing session identifiers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a critical risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a BleepingComputer article.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= r2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:philips:e-alert_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.