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ALPINE-CVE-2018-16738

LowCVSS 3.7 / 10
Published Oct 10, 2018·Last modified Dec 3, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

tinc 1.0.30 through 1.0.34 has a broken authentication protocol, although there is a partial mitigation. This is fixed in 1.1.

Risk Scores
Base Score
3.7

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.

Threat Intelligence
3.4

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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