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CVE-2018-1108

CVE-2018-1108 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

kernel drivers before version 4.17-rc1 are vulnerable to a weakness in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed data. Programs, early in the boot sequence, could use the data allocated for the seed before it was sufficiently generated.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, redhat

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

2%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

kernel

drivers

CVSS base

5.9

MEDIUM

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

kernel

Products (1)

drivers

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
5.9CVSS 3.0MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-330

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1110Brute Force
  • T1552.004Unsecure Credentials: Private Keys

References

9 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • kernelevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-330other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.