CVE-2018-5996

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

2.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 85.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Important. 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

2018-01-31 18:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2025-01-10 18:55Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-01-22

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

cd15235d6b5329ce855781b0f1fc52a8c1fd9a8596ea096abd1fd18aae78d3e5

• landave.iohttps://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions-via-rar-and-zip/
• www.securitytracker.com1040831http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040831vdb-entry
• 0patch.blogspot.sihttps://0patch.blogspot.si/2018/02/two-interesting-micropatches-for-7-zip.html
• github.comhttps://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/8
• github.comhttps://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip/issues/32