Vulnerability in Freedesktop Udisks
CVE-2018-17336
UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.
EPSS: 0.006 (46.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Freedesktop Udisks — versions 2.8.0
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 18.04
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-17336?
- CVE-2018-17336 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Udisks, classified under Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-09-22.
- How severe is CVE-2018-17336?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2018-17336 known to be exploited?
- 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.