VT-Designer Version 2.1.7.31 is vulnerable by the program populating objects with user supplied input via a file without first checking for…

published 2018-11-30 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-10691

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.2%; EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits: 0; none known

VT-Designer Version 2.1.7.31 is vulnerable by the program populating objects with user supplied input via a file without first checking for validity, allowing attacker supplied input to be written to known memory locations. This may cause the program to crash or allow remote code execution.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-18-333-01 updated 2018-11-29 cvss 6.3

INVT Electric VT-Designer

INVT Electric VT-Designer 2.1.7.31
affected: mitigation “INVT Electric's mitigations for these vulnerabilities are not yet available.”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

securityfocus.com /bid/106071
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-18-333-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-18987
NVD CVE-2018-18987

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Summary