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CVE-2018-13033

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-13033 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GNU Binutils BFD library (libbfd), affecting various GNU and Red Hat products including Binutils and Enterprise Linux. A remote attacker can trigger excessive memory allocation and application crashes by providing a crafted ELF file, particularly during execution of tools like nm. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0309 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: binutils-0:2.27-34.base.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mingw-binutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-13033Low

binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm

Jul 1, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHBA-2019:0327
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3032
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-01
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4336-1
securityfocus.com / bid/104584
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry