What is CVE-2018-11752?

CVE-2018-11752 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Cisco iOS, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2018-11752?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Puppet Cisco iOS

CVE-2018-11752

Previous releases of the Puppet cisco_ios module output SSH session debug information including login credentials to a world readable file on every run. These issues have been resolved in the 0.4.0 release.

Published 2018-10-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Puppet Cisco iOS

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11752 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11752?: CVE-2018-11752 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Puppet Cisco iOS, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2018-11752?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.