VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-13033

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 3.06%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.06%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.

CVSS 3.0: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 3.06% probability · 88th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-770
Affected: gnu/binutils · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux workstation · redhat/openshift container platform
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 5.3% on 21 September 2026 to 3.1% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.