CVE-2018-8835
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2018-04-25
- WeaknessCWE-415
Am I affected?
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Description
Double free vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer 2.1.7.32 and prior caused by processing specially crafted .pm3 files may allow remote code execution.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2018-04-2523:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-8835?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-8835?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
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Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | ≤ 2.1.7.32 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer
Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer: Version 2.1.7.32 and prior
Fix
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-18-114-03 · 1 productNCCIC is working with Advantech to provide mitigation steps to resolve the issues that have been reported in Advantech’s WebAccess HMI Designer.
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.06.8read 2026-10-23
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-415read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-415read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score2.0 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2018-04-25
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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