CVE-2018-10828: Alps Pointing-Device Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 10.1.101.207 only

Published 2018-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.