VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-17043
It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function Storage::init in Storage.cpp, called from parse_doc in parse_doc.cpp.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 1.05%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.05%). 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 doc2txt through 2014-03-19. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function Storage::init in Storage.cpp, called from parse_doc in parse_doc.cpp.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.05% probability · 62th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- doc2txt project/doc2txt
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/doc2txt#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-storageinitExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tsfn/doc2txt/issues/1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/doc2txt#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-storageinitExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tsfn/doc2txt/issues/1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.