CVE-2018-5473
An Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer issue was discovered in GE D60 Line Distance Relay devices…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 5.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer issue was discovered in GE D60 Line Distance Relay devices running firmware Version 7.11 and prior. The SSH functions of the device are vulnerable to buffer overflow conditions that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 38 days later
· 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.9% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
GE D60 Line Distance Relay
- affected GE D60 Line Distance Relay
References
2
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-18-046-02 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 103054 (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-2018-17243 (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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