CVE-2018-10868: Red Hat Certification

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

Affected products

• Red Hat Certification: version 7.0 only

Published 2021-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.