CVE-2018-1000301 is a critical buffer over-read vulnerability (CWE-125) affecting curl versions 7.20.0 through 7.59.0, specifically impacting the handling of RTSP content. This flaw could lead to a denial of service and potentially information disclosure, with affected products including canonical, debian, haxx, oracle, and redhat distributions. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), indicating a high-impact threat that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. The potential impact includes high confidentiality and availability compromise. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. It is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub 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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
curl: Out-of-bounds heap read when missing RTSP headers allows information leak or denial of service
May 16, 2018RTSP bad headers buffer over-read
May 16, 2018RTSP bad headers buffer over-read
May 16, 2018