The remote management interface of cgminer 4.10.0 and bfgminer 5.5.0 allows an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the addpool, failover-only, poolquota, and save command handlers.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2018-10058 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.6/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 15.37%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-12-20 | 16.03% | 15.37% | -0.66% |
| 2 | 2025-03-30 | 23.90% | 16.03% | -7.86% |
| 3 | 2025-03-29 | — | 23.90% | — |
Full EPSS history (8 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.0 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 6.5 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.0 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2018-10058 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (bfgminer, cgminer), 40 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 22, ignored 10, needs-triage 8. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10058 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| cgminer_project | cgminer | 4.10.0 | cpe:2.3:a:cgminer_project:cgminer:4.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| bfgminer | bfgminer | 5.5.0 | cpe:2.3:a:bfgminer:bfgminer:5.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/03/1 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2018-10058 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |