7.5high
CVE-2018-20786
libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (…
Published 7 y ago · modified 23 d ago · JSON
CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.9%
percentile 87%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application crash), related to screen.c, state.c, and vterm.c.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 23 d ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
2.92% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
References
- github.com /vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- github.com /vim/vim/issues/3711 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- usn.ubuntu.com /4309-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-20786
- NVD: CVE-2018-20786
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