How severe is CVE-2018-8850?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of CRITICAL with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2018-8850?

This is classified as CWE-20, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2018-8850

CRITICAL Year: 2018

CVSS v3 Score

9.8

Critical

CVSS v2 Score

7.5

High

Weakness Type

CWE-20

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Vulnerability Description

Philips e-Alert Unit (non-medical device), Version R2.1 and prior. The software does not validate input properly, allowing an attacker to craft the input in a form that is not expected by the rest of the application. This would lead to parts of the unit receiving unintended input, which may result in altered control flow, arbitrary control of a resource, or arbitrary code execution.

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