High severity · published Dec 19, 2018
CVE-2018-20230
An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0
7.8
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PS
Pspp · Gnu
1.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20230
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20230
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660318
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