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CVE-2018-17098

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17098 describes a heap corruption vulnerability in the WavFileBase class of Olli Parviainen SoundTouch 2.0, affecting products like surina soundtouch. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service or other significant impacts (CWE-787). Despite its high severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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

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
2.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 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

Vendor Patches (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-17098Low

soundtouch: Heap corruption in WavFileBase class in WavFile.cpp

Sep 17, 2018

References

github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/soundtouch/2018_09_03
ExploitThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com / soundtouch/soundtouch/issues/14
ExploitThird Party Advisory