CVE-2018-11738

8.1 highEPSS 1.3%

High (8.1) in sleuthkit the sleuth kit. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function ntfs_make_data_run in tsk/fs/ntfs.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.1 high

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

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2018-06-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit

References

https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1265
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1265

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