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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2018-10864 json

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw has been discovered in redhat-certification in the way documents are loaded.

published 2018-08-13 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2930

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw has been discovered in redhat-certification in the way documents are loaded. A remote attacker may provide an existing but invalid XML file which would be opened and never closed, possibly producing a Denial of Service.

Patch / fix

  • redhat-certification certifications 1 5.16-20180809.el7
  • redhat-certification-cloud certifications 1 5.16-20180809.el7
  • redhat-certification-backend certifications 1 5.16-20180809.el7
  • redhat-certification-hardware certifications 1 5.16-20180809.1.el7
  • redhat-certification-baremetal certifications 1 5.16-20180809.el7
  • redhat-certification-openstack certifications 1 5.16-20180809.el7
  • redhat-certification-hardware-preview certifications 1 5.16-20180809.1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2373

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10864 updated cvss 5.3

redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered

  • Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 redhat-certification 5.16-20180809.el7, redhat-certification-cloud 5.16-20180809.el7, redhat-certification-backend 5.16-20180809.el7, redhat-certification-baremetal 5.16-20180809.el7, redhat-certification-openstack 5.16-20180809.el7, redhat-certification-hardware 5.16-20180809.1.el7, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2373
  • Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 redhat-certification
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.0 6.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] redhat-certification:

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.