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CVE-2018-10828

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

An issue was discovered in Alps Pointing-device Driver 10.1.101.207. ApMsgFwd.exe allows the current user to map and write to the "ApMsgFwd File Mapping Object" section. ApMsgFwd.exe uses the data written to this section as arguments to functions. This causes a denial of service condition when invalid pointers are written to the mapped section. This driver has been used with Dell, ThinkPad, and VAIO devices.

Affected products

• Alps Pointing-Device Driver: 10.1.101.207

References

• http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-25654
• https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Exploits/blob/master/CVE-2018-10828/apmsgfwd_exploit_dos.c
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44610/
• http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-25654
• https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Exploits/blob/master/CVE-2018-10828/apmsgfwd_exploit_dos.c
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44610/

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