CVE-2018-14625
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A race condition between connect() and close() function may allow an attacker using the AF_VSOCK protocol to gather a 4 byte information leak or possibly intercept or corrupt AF_VSOCK messages destined to other clients.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 45 days later
· 45 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
References
References13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14625 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3872-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3878-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3871-5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3878-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3871-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3871-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3871-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190503 [SECURITY] [DLA 1771-1] linux-4.9 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4154 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-6531 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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