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CVE-2018-6337
folly::secureRandom will re-use a buffer between parent and child processes when fork() is called. That will result in multiple forked…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
folly::secureRandom will re-use a buffer between parent and child processes when fork() is called. That will result in multiple forked children producing repeat (or similar) results. This affects HHVM 3.26 prior to 3.26.3 and the folly library between v2017.12.11.00 and v2018.08.09.00.
Timeline
ID reserved
By facebook
- 11 months later
· 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
References
3
- https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/05/24/hhvm-3.26.3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/8e927ee48b114c8a2f90d0cbd5ac753795a6761f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/e2d10a1e32d01f71aaadd81169bcb9ae86c5d6b8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2018-18097 (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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