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high 8.8

CVE-2018-18983 json

VT-Designer Version 2.1.7.31 is vulnerable by the program reading the contents of a file (which is already in memory) into another heap-bas…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-10687

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

VT-Designer Version 2.1.7.31 is vulnerable by the program reading the contents of a file (which is already in memory) into another heap-based buffer, which may cause the program to crash or allow remote code execution.

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-18-333-01 updated cvss 6.3

INVT Electric VT-Designer

  • INVT Electric VT-Designer 2.1.7.31
    affected: mitigation “INVT Electric's mitigations for these vulnerabilities are not yet available.”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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