What is CVE-2018-18987?

CVE-2018-18987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Invt Vt-Designer, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-11-30.

How severe is CVE-2018-18987?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Deserialization in Invt Vt-Designer

CVE-2018-18987

VT-Designer Version 2.1.7.31 is vulnerable by the program populating objects with user supplied input via a file without first checking for validity, allowing attacker supplied input to be written to known memory locations. This may cause the program to crash or allow remote code execution.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.032 (86.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Invt Vt-designer — versions 2.1.7.31
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18987?: CVE-2018-18987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Invt Vt-Designer, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-11-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-18987?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.