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Vulnerability details: VCID-r78c-skaz-5uej
Vulnerability ID VCID-r78c-skaz-5uej
Aliases CVE-2018-12016
Summary libephymain.so in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) through 3.28.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain window.open and document.write calls.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.00623 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
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epss 0.00623 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
epss 0.00623 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
epss 0.00623 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
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epss 0.00623 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-12016
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12016
https://github.com/ldpreload/Disclosure/blob/master/EpiphanyDoS.txt
901018 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901018
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:epiphany:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnome:epiphany:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-12016 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.6921
EPSS Score 0.00623
Published At Sept. 9, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T09:56:41.262396+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12016 37.0.0