What is CVE-2018-20998?

CVE-2018-20998 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arrayfire, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-20998?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-20998 known to be exploited?

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

Buffer overflow in Arrayfire

CVE-2018-20998

An issue was discovered in the arrayfire crate before 3.6.0 for Rust. Addition of the repr() attribute to an enum is mishandled, leading to memory corruption.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.016 (74.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Arrayfire
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Artisan-Lab/Rust-memory-safety-bugs

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20998?: CVE-2018-20998 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Arrayfire, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-20998?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-20998 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.