Is CVE-2018-3836 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2018-3836 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2018-3836?

CVE-2018-3836 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2018-3836?

CVE-2018-3836 has an EPSS score of 1.45% (70th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3836?

Upgrade leptonlib on debian 11 to 1.75.3-1 or later. Fixes are available for 4 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2018-3836

HIGHEPSS 70th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

CWE-78OS Command Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

leptonlibDebian

Fixed in:1.75.3-1CVE-2018-3836

leptonlibUbuntu

Fixed in:1.70.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-4819-1

Fixed in:1.73-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-4819-1

liblept4Ubuntu

Fixed in:1.70.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-4819-1

liblept5Ubuntu

Fixed in:1.73-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-4819-1

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 RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.45%probability of exploitation in 30 days

70thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 70% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

talosintelligence.com

Third-Party Advisory1

lists.debian.org

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-78 (OS Command Injection) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2021-1498	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2014-6271	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2019-16920	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	-
CVE-2022-44877	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2020-8515	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	-
CVE-2020-9054	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	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.