VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-7438
An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 2.05%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.05%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in FreeXL before 1.0.5. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the parse_unicode_string function.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.05% probability · 81th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- freexl project/freexl · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.1% 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547889Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547889Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/spatialite-users/b-d9iB5TDPE
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4129Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.