What is CVE-2018-10774?

CVE-2018-10774 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bibutils Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2018-10774?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Bibutils Project

CVE-2018-10774

Read access violation in the isiin_keyword function in isiin.c in libbibutils.a in bibutils through 6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by isi2xml.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-05-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Bibutils Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

docs.google.com/document/d/1BuCxbXaGL_3DyaWF8sGnMAWolmYQneRrxHt4mNPkBE4/edit (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10774?: CVE-2018-10774 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bibutils Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2018-10774?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.