What is CVE-2018-17096?

CVE-2018-17096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Surina Soundtouch, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-17096?

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

Vulnerability in Surina Soundtouch

CVE-2018-17096

The BPMDetect class in BPMDetect.cpp in libSoundTouch.a in Olli Parviainen SoundTouch 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit), as demonstrated by SoundStretch.

Published 2018-09-16 · 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: 0.023 (82.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Surina Soundtouch — versions 2.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

gitlab.com/soundtouch/soundtouch/issues/14 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/soundtouch/2018_09_03 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17096?: CVE-2018-17096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Surina Soundtouch, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-17096?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.