CVE-2018-16742

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in mgetty project mgetty. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/scrts.c, a stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered via a command-line parameter.

Severity

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2018-09-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19