CVE-2018-10828

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
An issue was discovered in Alps Pointing-device Driver 10.1.101.207. ApMsgFwd.exe allows the current user to map and write to the "ApMsgFwd File Mapping Object" section. ApMsgFwd.exe uses the data written to this section as arguments to functions. This causes a denial of service condition when invalid pointers are written to the mapped section. This driver has been used with Dell, ThinkPad, and VAIO devices.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-10828
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-05-09T18:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-06-25T18:15:09
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:alps:pointing-device_driver:10.1.101.207:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 2.1
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Exploits/blob/master/CVE-2018-10828/apmsgfwd_exploit_dos.c Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44610/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-25654
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10828
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10828
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:49:31 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 05:59:47 2018-05-09T18:29Z 2018-05-09T18:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 05:59:47 2019-06-25T18:15:09 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 05:59:47 Modified Vulnerability Status updated