What is CVE-2018-17854?

CVE-2018-17854 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Simdcomp Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-01.

How severe is CVE-2018-17854?

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

Is CVE-2018-17854 known to be exploited?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Simdcomp Project

CVE-2018-17854

SIMDComp before 0.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) because it can read (and then discard) extra bytes. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17427.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.015 (70.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Simdcomp_project Simdcomp
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17854?: CVE-2018-17854 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Simdcomp Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-01.
How severe is CVE-2018-17854?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-17854 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.