CVE-2018-13843

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

** DISPUTED ** An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in bgzf_getline in bgzf.c. NOTE: the software maintainer's position is that the "failure to free memory" can be fixed in applications that use the HTSlib library (such as test/test_bgzf.c in the original report) and is not a library issue.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-13843

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2018-07-10T18:29:00

Last Modified Date
2019-10-03T00:03:26

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-772	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:htslib:htslib:1.8:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.5

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issue-339662537	Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13843
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13843

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:32:59				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 09:38:43	2018-07-10T18:29Z	2018-07-10T18:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 09:38:43		2019-10-03T00:03:26	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 09:38:43		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated