{"id":"CVE-2018-17494","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-17494","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:26:38.288Z","title":"eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error with the Virtual Keyboard Start Menu.","description":"eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error with the Virtual Keyboard Start Menu. By visiting the kiosk and pressing windows key twice, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to close the program and launch other processes on the system.","published":"2019-03-21T16:00:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:45:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@us.ibm.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["thresholdsecurity/evisitorpass"],"epss":{"score":0.00384,"percentile":0.32329,"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 (0.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149654","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"psirt@us.ibm.com"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149654","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17494","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."}