What is CVE-2018-8479?

CVE-2018-8479 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft C Sdk, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2018-09-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-8479?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Microsoft C Sdk

CVE-2018-8479

A spoofing vulnerability exists for the Azure IoT Device Provisioning for the C SDK library using the HTTP protocol on Windows platform, aka "Azure IoT SDK Spoofing Vulnerability." This affects C SDK.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.021 (80.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

secure@microsoft.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8479?: CVE-2018-8479 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft C Sdk, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2018-09-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-8479?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.