{"id":"CVE-2018-13420","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-13420","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:38:38.360Z","title":"Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule.","description":"Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program","published":"2018-07-07T17:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:39:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-772"],"affected":["gperftools project/gperftools"],"epss":{"score":0.01486,"percentile":0.73887,"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 (1.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/1013","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13420","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."}