What is CVE-2017-15018?

CVE-2017-15018 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lame Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-10-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-15018?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Lame Project

CVE-2017-15018

LAME 3.99.5, 3.99.4, 3.99.3, 3.99.2, 3.99.1, 3.99, 3.98.4, 3.98.2 and 3.98 have a heap-based buffer over-read when handling a malformed file in k_34_4 in vbrquantize.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-10-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (56.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Lame Project — versions 3.98, 3.98.2, 3.98.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/480/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-15018?: CVE-2017-15018 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lame Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-10-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-15018?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.