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CVE-2018-8852

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= r2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:e-alert_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-18-242-01
MitigationThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
usa.philips.com / healthcare/about/customer-support/product-security
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105194
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry