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CVE-2018-9129

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-9129 describes a Bleichenbacher vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) handshake implementation of ZyXEL ZyWALL/USG series devices, impacting their IPsec VPN connections. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve a high integrity impact over the network with high attack complexity, though it has no confidentiality or availability impact. While not listed in the KEV catalog and with no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:zywall_110_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:zywall_1100_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:zywall_310_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:zywall_vpn_50_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:zywall_vpn_100_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.zyxel.com / USG110/firmware/USG110_4.32%28AAPH.0%29C0_2.pdf
web-in-security.blogspot.com / 2018/08/practical-bleichenbacher-attacks-on-ipsec-ike.html
Third Party Advisory
zyxel.com / support/bleichenbacher_attack_vulnerability.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory