CVE•Published 2026-08-04•Modified 2026-09-09•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18753
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
24
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 76% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The product firmware contains an embedded, static RSA private key utilized by the Lighttpd web server for TLS termination. Exposure of this private key allows malicious actors to breach the confidentiality and integrity of HTTPS communications, enabling traffic decryption and server spoofing.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-04
Modified 2026-09-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18753Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18753Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-18753Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-18753GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-18753" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-18753 on GitHub.