{"id":"CVE-2018-1198","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-1198","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:24:44.904Z","title":"A malicious user with access to the logs could escalate their privileges using this password.","description":"Pivotal Cloud Cache, versions prior to 1.3.1, prints a superuser password in plain text during BOSH deployment logs. A malicious user with access to the logs could escalate their privileges using this password.","published":"2018-09-17T16:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:50:41.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security_alert@emc.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-532"],"affected":["pivotal software/pivotal cloud cache"],"epss":{"score":0.00961,"percentile":0.6143,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.96%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1198","tags":["Mitigation","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security_alert@emc.com"},{"url":"https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1198","tags":["Mitigation","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1198","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."}