{"id":"CVE-2018-11210","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-11210","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:20:07.564Z","title":"NOTE: The tinyxml2 developers have determined that the reported overflow is due to improper use of the library and not a vulnerability in tinyxml2","description":"TinyXML2 6.2.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Parse function in libtinyxml2.so. NOTE: The tinyxml2 developers have determined that the reported overflow is due to improper use of the library and not a vulnerability in tinyxml2","published":"2018-05-16T15:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:35:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["tinyxml2 project/tinyxml2"],"epss":{"score":0.02275,"percentile":0.83002,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675#issuecomment-439933437","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675#issuecomment-462194018","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675#issuecomment-439933437","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675#issuecomment-462194018","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11210","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}