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CVE-2018-16890
libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 is vulnerable to a heap buffer out-of-bounds read. The function handling incoming NTLM…
Medium5.4EPSS 5.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 is vulnerable to a heap buffer out-of-bounds read. The function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:ntlm_decode_type2_target`) does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability. Using that overflow, a malicious or broken NTLM server could trick libcurl to accept a bad length + offset combination that would lead to a buffer read out-of-bounds.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 7.64.0
References (12)
- DSA-4386 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 106947 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16890.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3882-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16890 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [infra-devnull] 20190404 [GitHub] [incubator-openwhisk-runtime-ballerina] falkzoll commented on issue #15: Update to new base image jdk8u202-b08_openj9-0.12.1. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-436177.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03314397?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3701 (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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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