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CVE-2018-14523

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14523 is a high-severity buffer over-read vulnerability affecting aubio 0.4.6 and various related SUSE/openSUSE products. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.8, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage. The vulnerability is categorized as CWE-125, indicating an out-of-bounds read.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aubio:aubio:0.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 14,825 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: aubioFixed in: 0.4.7

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-3x58-8qmv-wqw5high

Aubio is vulnerable to out of bound read when samplerate > 50kHz

May 13, 2022

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00071.html
github.com / aubio/aubio/issues/189
ExploitThird Party Advisory