{"id":"CVE-2018-10908","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-10908","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:06:05.057Z","title":"By uploading a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause the qemu-img process to consume unbounded amounts of memory of CPU time, causing a denial of service condition that could potentially impact other users of the host.","description":"It was found that vdsm before version 4.20.37 invokes qemu-img on untrusted inputs without limiting resources. By uploading a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause the qemu-img process to consume unbounded amounts of memory of CPU time, causing a denial of service condition that could potentially impact other users of the host.","published":"2018-08-09T19:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:34:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20","CWE-770"],"affected":["ovirt/vdsm","redhat/virtualization"],"epss":{"score":0.01185,"percentile":0.67642,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.02197,"percentile":0.81505},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01185,"percentile":0.6644}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10908","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}