CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-16881
High (7.5). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A denial of service vulnerability was found in rsyslog in the imptcp module. An attacker could send a specially crafted message to the imptcp socket, which would cause rsyslog to crash. Versions before 8.27.0 are vulnerable.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_scientific_computing
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- redhat:virtualization
- redhat:virtualization_host
- redhat:virtualization_manager
- rsyslog:rsyslog