What is CVE-2018-18960?

CVE-2018-18960 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Epson Workforce Wf-2861, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-12-24.

How severe is CVE-2018-18960?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Epson Workforce Wf-2861

CVE-2018-18960

An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. They use SNMP to find certain devices on the network, but the default version is v2c, allowing an amplification attack.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Epson Epson_workforce_wf-2861
Epson Epson_workforce_wf-2861_firmware — versions 10.48_lq22i3, 10.51.lq20i6, 10.52.lq17ia
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18960?: CVE-2018-18960 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Epson Workforce Wf-2861, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-12-24.
How severe is CVE-2018-18960?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.