Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2018-14044

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14044 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the RateTransposer::setChannels function in libSoundTouch.a, specifically demonstrated in SoundStretch. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger an assertion failure, causing the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to a complete loss of availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:surina:soundtouch:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: soundtouch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: soundtouch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-14044Low

soundtouch: Reachable assertion in RateTransposer::setChannels() causing denial of service

Jul 13, 2018

References

github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/soundtouch/readme.md
Third Party Advisory