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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-11737

An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function ntfs_fix_idxrec in tsk/fs/ntfs_dent.cpp which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 1.33%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function ntfs_fix_idxrec in tsk/fs/ntfs_dent.cpp which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service.

CVSS 3.0
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.33% probability · 69th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
sleuthkit/the sleuth kit
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.