CVE-2018-16862: [UNKNOWN] kernel:

Information disclosure in [UNKNOWN] kernel:

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0053 · 45th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 26 Nov 2018, 19:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	kernel:	affected n/a

Identifiers

CVE-2018-16862

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-200

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Nov 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009 vdb-entrybid
usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169 mailing-listmlist
usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/ confirm
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862 confirm
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html mailing-listmlist
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html mailing-listmlist
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html mailing-listmlist
usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.