JioFi 4G Hotspot M2S devices allow attackers to cause a denial of service (secure configuration outage) via an XSS payload in the SSID name…

published 2018-08-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-7060

cvss: 6.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 5.2%; EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

JioFi 4G Hotspot M2S devices allow attackers to cause a denial of service (secure configuration outage) via an XSS payload in the SSID name and Security Key fields.

Timeline

2018-08-09 Published
2018-08-15 First public exploit (EDB-45199)

Exploit prediction

5.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-45199 JioFi 4G M2S 1.0.2 - Denial of Service (PoC) dos, 2018-08-15
gkaim.com https://gkaim.com/cve-2018-15181-vikas-chaudhary/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/45199/
exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
gkaim.com /cve-2018-15181-vikas-chaudhary/
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-15181
NVD CVE-2018-15181

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Summary