CVE-2018-4832
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA vulnerability has been identified in OpenPCS 7 V7.1 and earlier (All versions), OpenPCS 7 V8.0 (All versions), OpenPCS 7 V8.1 (All versions < V8.1 Upd5), OpenPCS 7 V8.2 (All versions), OpenPCS 7 V9.0 (All versions < V9.0 Upd1), SIMATIC BATCH V7.1 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC BATCH V8.0 (All versions < V8.0 SP1 Upd21), SIMATIC BATCH V8.1 (All versions < V8.1 SP1 Upd16), SIMATIC BATCH V8.2 (All versions < V8.2 Upd10), SIMATIC BATCH V9.0 (All versions < V9.0 SP1), SIMATIC NET PC Software V14 (All versions < V14 SP1 Update 14), SIMATIC NET PC Software V15 (All versions < 15 SP1), SIMATIC PCS 7 V7.1 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.0 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.1 (All versions), SIMATIC PCS 7 V8.2 (All versions < V8.2 SP1), SIMATIC PCS 7 V9.0 (All versions < V9.0 SP1), SIMATIC Route Control V7.1 and earlier (All versions), SIMATIC Route Control V8.0 (All versions), SIMATIC Route Control V8.1 (All versions), SIMATIC Route Control V8.2 (All versions), SIMATIC Route Control V9.0 (All versions < V9.0 Upd1), SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V13 (All versions < V13 SP2 Upd2), SIMATIC WinCC Runtime Professional V14 (All versions < V14 SP1 Upd5), SIMATIC WinCC V7.2 and earlier (All versions < WinCC 7.2 Upd 15), SIMATIC WinCC V7.3 (All versions < WinCC 7.3 Upd 16), SIMATIC WinCC V7.4 (All versions < V7.4 SP1 Upd 4), SPPA-T3000 Application Server (All versions < Service Pack R8.2 SP2). Specially crafted messages sent to the RPC service of the affected products could cause a Denial-of-Service condition on the remote and local communication functionality of the affected products. A reboot of the system is required to recover the remote and local communication functionality. Please note that an attacker needs to have network access to the Application Server in order to exploit this vulnerability. At the time of advisory publication no public exploitation of this security vulnerability was known.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisThe application accepts input without confirming it is well-formed or within expected bounds, so malformed data can push the program into states its author never anticipated. Attackers probe these gaps to trigger crashes, bypass logic, or feed tainted values into more dangerous operations downstream. Remediating it well means validating and normalising every input at the boundary against a strict allow-list — not merely filtering known-bad values.
General guidance for the improper input validation class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 7.1= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2= 9.0= 7.1= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2= 9.0< 15= 15<= 7.1= 8.0= 8.1= 8.2= 9.0<= 7.1= 8.0= 8.1= 9.0< 13= 13= 14< 7.2= 7.2= 7.3= 7.4< r8.2= r8.2CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor data7.21315
Scan for this in your stack
Free · runs locallyCheck whether your project pulls in CVE-2018-4832 — or any other known-vulnerable package — straight from your lock files. Free and open source; it runs locally and uploads nothing.
References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2018-4832 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
No notes yet
Be the first to add a field note for this CVE — a mitigation you’ve verified, a version caveat, or a link to a working fix. Sign in above to contribute.
A place for practitioners to share what actually worked: a mitigation you’ve tested, a configuration change, a version- or environment-specific caveat, or a link to a verified patch. The most useful notes rise to the top as peers upvote them, so the signal stays high.
- Verified mitigations, workarounds, and config changes
- Version or environment caveats, and links to real fixes
- No weaponised exploit code, or anything meant to cause harm
- No spam, self-promotion, credentials, or personal data