What is CVE-2018-13844?

CVE-2018-13844 is a high-severity vulnerability in Htslib, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-13844?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-13844 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Htslib

CVE-2018-13844

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in fai_read in faidx.c. NOTE: This has been disputed with the assertion that this vulnerability exists in the test harness and HTSlib users would be aware of the need to destruct this object returned by fai_load() in their own code

EPSS: 0.014 (70.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Htslib — versions 1.8
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-13844?: CVE-2018-13844 is a high-severity vulnerability in Htslib, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-13844?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-13844 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.