Is CVE-2018-12699 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2018-12699 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2018-12699?

CVE-2018-12699 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2018-12699?

CVE-2018-12699 has an EPSS score of 4.50% (90th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12699?

Upgrade binutils on debian 11 to 2.32.51.20190707-1 or later. Fixes are available for 11 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2018-12699

CRITICALEPSS 90th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

finish_stab in stabs.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write of 8 bytes. This can occur during execution of objdump.

CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write

How to fix

Remediation Available

binutilsDebian

Fixed in:2.32.51.20190707-1CVE-2018-12699

binutilsRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutilsRocky

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-debuginfoRocky

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-debuginfoRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-debugsourceRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-debugsourceRocky

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-develRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutils-develRocky

Fixed in:0:2.30-125.el8_10RHSA-2024:9689

binutilsUbuntu

Fixed in:2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1USN-4336-2

Fixed in:2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3USN-4336-1

binutils-multiarchUbuntu

Fixed in:2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1USN-4336-2

Fixed in:2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3USN-4336-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

4.50%probability of exploitation in 30 days

90thpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 90% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit3

Third-Party Advisory1

securityfocus.com

Other references2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2025-22457	Critical	9.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2025-0282	Critical	9.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2015-3113	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2021-20038	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2023-4863	High	8.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2020-16040	Medium	6.5	100%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.