Is CVE-2018-18701 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2018-18701 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2018-18701?

CVE-2018-18701 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2018-18701?

CVE-2018-18701 has an EPSS score of 1.69% (74th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2018-18701?

Upgrade binutils on debian 11 to 2.32.51.20190707-1 or later. Fixes are available for 5 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2018-18701

MEDIUMEPSS 74th pctl

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

CWE-835

How to fix

Remediation Available

binutilsDebian

Fixed in:2.32.51.20190707-1CVE-2018-18701

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

libibertyUbuntu

Fixed in:20160215-1ubuntu0.3USN-4326-1

Fixed in:20170913-1ubuntu0.1USN-4326-1

libiberty-devUbuntu

Fixed in:20160215-1ubuntu0.3USN-4326-1

Fixed in:20170913-1ubuntu0.1USN-4326-1

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 VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.69%probability of exploitation in 30 days

74thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 74% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

gcc.gnu.org

Other references2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-835 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2020-13935	High	7.5	88%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-36227	High	7.5	78%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-0778	High	7.5	71%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-14241	High	7.5	70%	-	-
CVE-2017-16944	High	7.5	63%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-20353	High	8.6	63%	KEV	-

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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.