CVE-2018-7998

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

1.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 77.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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

2018-03-09 19:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 06:37Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-03-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

688c6730c17ad7675266fe3fe0fc75741167805ac499ac1bc266fd654aed3fbc

• github.comhttps://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/20d840e6da15c1574b3ed998bc92f91d1e36c2a5x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/893x_refsource_MISC
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180311 [SECURITY] [DLA 1306-1] vips security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00009.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST