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HIGH

CVE-2018-3851

CVE-2018-3851 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

In Hyland Perceptive Document Filters 11.4.0.2647 - x86/x64 Windows/Linux, an exploitable stack-based buffer overflow exists in the DOC-to-HTML conversion functionality of the Hyland Perceptive Document Filters version 11.4.0.2647. A crafted .doc document can lead to a stack-based buffer, resulting in direct code execution.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, talos

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

3%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

hyland software

perceptive_document_filters

CVSS base

8.8

HIGH

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)

hyland software

Products (1)

perceptive document filters

Every base score collected

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

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.8CVSS 3.0HIGH——cvelistV5

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

  • Search application, proxy, and WAF logs for requests touching /x64, /Linux.

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

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.