CVE-2018-20818

critical

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the OpenPLC controller, in the OpenPLC_v2 and OpenPLC_v3 versions. It occurs in the modbus.cpp mapUnusedIO() function, which can cause a runtime crash of the PLC or possibly have unspecified other impact.

References

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.07477

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-04-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00459