VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-20786
libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application crash), related to screen.c, state.c, and vterm.c.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.97%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.97%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application crash), related to screen.c, state.c, and vterm.c.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.97% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- leonerd/libvterm
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.