CVE-2018-13844
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 10, 2018 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHtslib
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in fai_read in faidx.c. NOTE: This has been disputed with the assertion that this vulnerability exists in the test harness and HTSlib users would be aware of the need to destruct this object returned by fai_load() in their own code
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403675330CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401
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