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CVE-2018-6400 — Kingsoft WPS Office Free 10

Kingsoft WPS Office Free 10.2.0.5978 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by impersonating all the pipes through a use of \\.\pipe\WPSCloudSvr\WpsCloudSvr -- an "insecurely created named pipe." Ensures full access to Everyone users group.

CVSS
7.8 HIGH
EPSS
0.05% (top 85.30%)
CWE
—
Published
2018-03-12T21:29:00.953
Last modified
2026-05-14T19:16:27.480
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Kingsoft WPS Office Free 10.2.0.5978 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by impersonating all the pipes through a use of \\.\pipe\WPSCloudSvr\WpsCloudSvr -- an "insecurely created named pipe." Ensures full access to Everyone users group.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

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

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

09References

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