DHCP packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 28, and earlier are vulnerable to a command injection flaw in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol.
CVE-2018-1111
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 98% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 98%
- Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB, other public proof-of-concept code)
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 73EG Risk 73/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation98% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 98%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 7.5 HIGH): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 98% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-21). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
May 17, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1460Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1459Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1458Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1457Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1456Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1455Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1454Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1453Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-1111(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(11)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.1.1-34.P1.el6_4.2 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.2 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.2.5-68.el7_5.1 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.1.1-49.P1.el6_7.1 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.2.5-47.el7_3.1 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.2.5-58.el7_4.4 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.2.5-42.el7_2.1 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.1.1-38.P1.el6_5.1 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20180508.0 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | rhvm-appliance-0:4.2-20180504.0 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
| redhat | dhcp-12:4.1.1-53.P1.el6_9.4 | 2018-05-15 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(10)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1453CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1453 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1454CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1454 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1455CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1455 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1456CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1456 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1457CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1457 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1458CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1458 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1459CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1459 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1460CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1460 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1461CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1461 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1524CRITICAL2018-05-15
RHSA-2018:1524 — Critical
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 15 repeat rows among the latest 81 are merged into the row they repeat.
- 2026-10-22 16:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 15:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 15:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 15:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-20 14:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 14:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-19 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 13:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-18 13:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 13:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-18 10:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 12:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 12:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-16 12:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 12:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 12:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-15 11:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 11:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 11:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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- 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 07:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-13 02:34 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-10-12 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 00:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 15:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-30 09:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 03:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-06 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-05 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-28 21:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-25 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-16 02:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-12 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-24 14:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-23 01:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 22:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 16:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-13 06:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-01 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-24 14:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-23 21:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-17 17:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-15 17:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-14 23:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-12 23:09 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-10 22:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-10 13:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-06 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-05 22:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-05 06:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-06-01 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-05-29 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-05-28 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
- 2026-05-28 08:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-28 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-05-28 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5jw9-5ff9-vr5p · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
- 2026-05-26 07:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 88% · 99th percentile
Publicly available exploits
(5 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries, 2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Exploit-DBEDB-44890✓ verifiedPublished Jun 13, 2018
DHCP Client - Command Injection 'DynoRoot' (Metasploit)
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/unix/dhcp/rhel_dhcp_client_command_injection✓ verifiedPublished Jun 12, 2018
DHCP Client Command Injection (DynoRoot)
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-44652✓ verifiedPublished May 18, 2018
DynoRoot DHCP Client - Command Injection
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCkkirsche/CVE-2018-1111Published May 18, 2018
CVE-2018-1111 DynoRoot
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCknqyf263/CVE-2018-1111Published May 17, 2018
Environment for DynoRoot (CVE-2018-1111)
Open source ↗
Related CVEs(same vendor + same CWE)
Same vendor
8 shownredhat:RHSA-2018:1525 · redhat:RHSA-2018:1524
Same CWE
10 shownCWE-78 · CWE-77
- CVE-2018-10730EG 9.1EPSS p91CRITICAL
- CVE-2018-0324EG 6.7MEDIUM
- CVE-2018-0279EG 8.8EPSS p91HIGH
- CVE-2018-10967EG 8.8EPSS p90HIGH
- CVE-2018-10354EG 8.8EPSS p96HIGH
- CVE-2018-1239EG 7.2HIGH
- CVE-2018-1235EG 9.8EPSS p99CRITICAL
- CVE-2018-1242EG 6.5MEDIUM
- CVE-2018-10562EG 9.8 KEVEPSS p100CRITICAL
- CVE-2018-11132EG 8.8EPSS p97HIGH
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