CVE-2018-11759

CRITICALNVD 7.59.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 91% 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.

Triggered by: EPSS exploit prediction (continuous uplift above 30%)
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2018-3777 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 91%
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 91%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The Apache Web Server (httpd) specific code that normalised the requested path before matching it to the URI-worker map in Apache Tomcat JK (mod_jk) Connector 1.2.0 to 1.2.44 did not handle some edge cases correctly. If only a sub-set of the URLs supported by Tomcat were exposed via httpd, then it was possible for a specially constructed request to expose application functionality through the reverse proxy that was not intended for clients accessing the application via the reverse proxy. It was also possible in some configurations for a specially constructed request to bypass the access controls configured in httpd. While there is some overlap between this issue and CVE-2018-1323, they are not identical.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

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.
Exploitation91% × 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
91%
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
91% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-08). 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, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: 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.

The score's inputs: 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

October 31, 2018

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatpatch2019-02-18redhat
redhatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.0.2n-14.jbcs.el72019-02-18redhat

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.

Affected Packages

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk—
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk—
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk—
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk—
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-1
—
Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk1:1.2.37-4 ... 1:1.2.44-3 (9 versions)
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-0+deb8u1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-0+deb8u1
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libapache-mod-jk1:1.2.42-1, 1:1.2.43-1, 1:1.2.44-1, 1:1.2.44-2, 1:1.2.44-3
  • every version up to 1:1.2.46-0+deb9u1: fixed in 1:1.2.46-0+deb9u1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(2)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 99× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 159 refreshes on record for this CVE.

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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 59 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-09 15:11 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-11-09 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  3. 2026-11-08 16:58 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-11-08 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-11-08 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  6. 2026-11-07 18:44 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-11-07 18:44 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-07 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  9. 2026-11-06 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-11-06 20:31 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-06 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  12. 2026-11-06 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-11-05 22:18 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-11-05 22:18 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-05 22:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  16. 2026-11-05 00:00 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-11-05 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-05 00:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  19. 2026-11-04 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-11-04 01:47 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-11-04 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-04 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  23. 2026-11-03 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-11-03 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-03 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  1. 2026-11-02 19:55 UTCOSV refresh
  2. 2026-11-02 05:20 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 05:20 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  5. 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  8. 2026-10-31 08:52 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 08:52 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-31 08:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  11. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-10-30 10:39 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-30 10:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  14. 2026-10-29 12:26 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 12:26 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-29 12:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  17. 2026-10-28 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 14:03 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-28 14:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  20. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  21. 2026-10-27 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-27 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  23. 2026-10-26 17:01 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-26 17:01 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-26 17:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  26. 2026-10-25 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-25 18:31 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-25 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  29. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  30. 2026-10-24 20:18 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-24 20:18 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-24 20:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  33. 2026-10-23 22:04 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-23 22:04 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-23 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  36. 2026-10-22 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-22 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-22 23:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  39. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  40. 2026-10-22 01:30 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-22 01:30 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-22 01:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  43. 2026-10-21 03:17 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-21 03:17 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-21 03:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  46. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  47. 2026-10-20 05:03 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-20 05:03 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-20 05:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  50. 2026-10-19 06:03 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-19 06:03 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-19 06:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  53. 2026-10-18 07:48 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-18 07:48 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-18 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  56. 2026-10-17 09:31 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-10-17 09:31 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-17 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  59. 2026-10-16 11:16 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-10-16 11:16 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-16 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  62. 2026-10-15 11:44 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-15 11:44 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-15 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  65. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  66. 2026-10-14 07:14 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-14 07:14 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-14 07:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  69. 2026-10-13 02:30 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-13 02:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5q2c-33mg-8m75 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  71. 2026-10-12 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-12 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  73. 2026-10-12 00:43 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-10-11 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  75. 2026-10-09 20:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2018/CVE-2018-11759.yaml
    Published Jul 6, 2020

    Apache Tomcat JK Connect <=1.2.44 - Manager Access

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCJul10l1r4/Identificador-CVE-2018-11759
    Published Dec 8, 2018

    This exploit for CVE 2018-11759, vulnerability in apache mod_jk, module for load-balancer

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCimmunIT/CVE-2018-11759
    Published Nov 1, 2018

    Proof of concept showing how to exploit the CVE-2018-11759

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2018-11759?
CVE-2018-11759 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 31, 2018. The Apache Web Server (httpd) specific code that normalised the requested path before matching it to the URI-worker map in Apache Tomcat JK (mod_jk) Connector 1.2.0 to 1.2.44 did not handle some edge cases correctly. If only a sub-set of the URLs supported by Tomcat were exposed via httpd, then it…
When was CVE-2018-11759 made public?
CVE-2018-11759 was made public on October 31, 2018: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Apache Software Foundation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 31, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-11759 actively exploited?
CVE-2018-11759 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 91% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-11759?
CVE-2018-11759 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2018-11759?
A fix for CVE-2018-11759 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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