What is CVE-2018-12268?

CVE-2018-12268 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Acccheck Project Acccheck.pl, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-12268?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Acccheck Project Acccheck.pl

CVE-2018-12268

acccheck.pl in acccheck 0.2.1 allows Command Injection via shell metacharacters in a username or password file, as demonstrated by injection into an smbclient command line.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.026 (84.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Acccheck_project Acccheck.pl — versions 0.2.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12268?: CVE-2018-12268 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Acccheck Project Acccheck.pl, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-12268?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.