Out-of-bounds Read in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit

CVE-2018-11740

An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2018-11740: held from 0.013 to 0.013.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11740?
CVE-2018-11740 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-11740?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.