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.

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 a…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.013 (67.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Sleuthkit The_sleuth_kit
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

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.