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CVE-2018-6982
VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG and VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG contain uninitialized stack memory usage in…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.45%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
Description
VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG and VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter which may lead to an information leak from host to guest.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 10 months later
· 10 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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- uninitialized stack memory
- CWE-908 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-908 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG, VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG
References (3)
- 1042055 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 105882 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0027.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- 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-2018-6982)Record last updated .