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CVE-2018-1000120
A buffer overflow exists in curl 7.12.3 to and including curl 7.58.0 in the FTP URL handling that allows an attacker to cause a denial of…
Critical9.8EPSS 11.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A buffer overflow exists in curl 7.12.3 to and including curl 7.58.0 in the FTP URL handling that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or worse.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.6% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (18)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3558 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3157 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4136 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180318 [SECURITY] [DLA 1309-1] curl security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 103414 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-3598-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1040531 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-9cd6.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3598-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:0327 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1543 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0544 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-674j-7m97-j2p9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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