6.5

CVE-2018-10999: canonical ubuntu_linux Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 6.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-10999DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10999
Published 12-05-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-10999 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 2.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 1
DLA-1402-1DLA-1551-1DSA-4238-1RHSA-2019:2101USN-3700-1

Timeline

  1. 12-05-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. The Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk function has a heap-based buffer over-read.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.40% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Exiv2

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian2 products
Canonical1 product
Exiv21 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • exiv2< 0.23-1ubuntu2.1 | < 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.2 | < 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1

4 vendors · 5 products

References

10 links