CVE-2018-1985 — IBM Trusteer Rapport/Apex 3

IBM Trusteer Rapport/Apex 3.6.1908.22 contains an unused legacy driver which could allow a user with administrator privileges to cause a buffer overflow that would result in a kernel panic. IBM X-Force ID: 154207.

01What is this vulnerability?

IBM Trusteer Rapport/Apex 3.6.1908.22 contains an unused legacy driver which could allow a user with administrator privileges to cause a buffer overflow that would result in a kernel panic. IBM X-Force ID: 154207.

02Affected products

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-08-24T15:30:29.323Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T16:32:50.588Z

09References

• www.ibm.com — https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10869212
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154207