6.5

CVE-2018-18064: cairographics cairo Out-of-bounds Write

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-18064DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18064
Published 08-10-2018Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-18064 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in cairographics cairo. EPSS estimates a 1.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73.5% 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 · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.48%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 08-10-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

cairo through 1.15.14 has an out-of-bounds stack-memory write during processing of a crafted document by WebKitGTK+ because of the interaction between cairo-rectangular-scan-converter.c (the generate and render_rows functions) and cairo-image-compositor.c (the _cairo_image_spans_and_zero function).

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.48%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

74%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.48% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.48%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cairographics1 product
Debian1 product
  • cairoAll versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu1 product
  • cairoAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links