CVE-2018-20786

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-20786

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2019-02-24T14:29:00

Last Modified Date
2020-03-30T20:15:15

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-476	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:leonerd:libvterm::::::::	1	OR		0\+bzr726

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/vim/vim/issues/3711	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20786
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20786

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:45:50				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 17:38:17	2019-02-24T14:29Z	2019-02-24T14:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 17:38:17		2020-03-30T20:15:15	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 17:38:17		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated