CVE-2018-17294

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 85.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2018-09-21 06:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 10:47Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-09-21

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

efb5dde57ff32d2d3384678c0a1d871c074d806e9a0409e0928f4aea382e340e

• github.comhttps://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/issues/635x_refsource_MISC
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3782-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3782-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.securityfocus.com105511http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105511vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• github.comhttps://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/commit/5e4089659bb49b3095fa541fa6387b4c40d7396ex_refsource_MISC
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1160http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00038.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE