CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-11740

An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

5.8 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 4.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

8.1 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264 Exploit Issue Tracking
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-06-05 11:29

Updated : 2018-07-13 02:38

NVD link : CVE-2018-11740

Mitre link : CVE-2018-11740

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read