What is CVE-2018-15907?

CVE-2018-15907 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Technicolor Tc8305c, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-29.

How severe is CVE-2018-15907?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Technicolor Tc8305c

CVE-2018-15907

Technicolor (formerly RCA) TC8305C devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (networking outage) via a flood of random MAC addresses, as demonstrated by macof. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2018-15852 and CVE-2018-16310. NOTE: Technicolor denies that the described behavior is a vulnerability and states that Wi-Fi traffic is slowed or stopped only while the devices are exposed to a MAC flooding attack. This has been confirmed through testing against official up-to-date versions

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2018-08-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 60.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

bkd00r.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/cve-2018-15907-exploit-title-techniclor-formerl… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15907?: CVE-2018-15907 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Technicolor Tc8305c, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-29.
How severe is CVE-2018-15907?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.