- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Dokan, versions between 1.0.0.5000 and 1.2.0.1000, are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the dokan1.sys driver. An attacker can create a device handle to the system driver and send arbitrary input that will trigger the vulnerability. This vulnerability was introduced in the 1.0.0.5000 version update.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Dokany 1.2.0.1000 - Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 46155local, windowspublished 14 Jan 2019Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 46155 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 12 months later
· 12 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Dokan · Open Source File System
- affected 1.0.0.5000 – < 1.0.0.5000*
- affected 1.2.0.1000 – ≤ 1.2.0.1000
What to do
Solution: Dokan developers have released a new version, 1.2.1, that fixes this vulnerability by validating the user input.
References
5
- VU#741315 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 46155 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/121.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/releases/tag/v1.2.1.1000 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 106274 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2018-17180 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-5410)Record last updated .