{"id":"CVE-2018-8883","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-8883","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:21:06.804Z","title":"Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a buffer over-read in the parse_line function in asm/parser.c via uncontrolled access to nasm_reg_flags.","description":"Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a buffer over-read in the parse_line function in asm/parser.c via uncontrolled access to nasm_reg_flags.","published":"2018-03-20T23:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:05:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["nasm/netwide assembler"],"epss":{"score":0.00374,"percentile":0.31158,"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 (0.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392447","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392447","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8883","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."}