VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-13845
An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.70%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a buffer over-read in sam_parse1 in sam.c.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.70% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- htslib/htslib
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403681105Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403681105Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.