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CVE-2018-8853

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8853 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Philips Brilliance CT devices, including Brilliance 64, iCT, iCT SP, and CT Big Bore models. Due to the Windows operating system booting with elevated privileges within a contained kiosk, an attacker or authorized user could attain unauthorized elevated privileges and access underlying Windows resources. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:brilliance_firmware_64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:brilliance_ict_sp_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:brilliance_ict_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:philips:_brilliance_ct_big_bore_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSMA-18-123-01
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
usa.philips.com / healthcare/about/customer-support/product-security
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104088
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry