High severity · published Jun 5, 2018
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
8.1
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TS
The Sleuth Kit · Sleuthkit
4.0.2 through 4.6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11740
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11740
Exploit
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264
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