The Sleuthkit project provides digital forensics and incident-response tools, particularly its core Sleuthkit library and Autopsy case-management platform, which are widely used in law-enforcement and security-investigation workflows. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew strongly toward critical-severity outcomes and cluster around memory-safety and input-handling weaknesses—including out-of-bounds reads, improper input validation, path traversal, OS command injection, and buffer-boundary violations—that arise from the tools' need to parse untrusted filesystem images and evidence files. Current severity and exploitation status are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Sleuthkit over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (20 CVEs).
20 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2022-45639HIGH OS Command injection vulnerability in sleuthkit fls tool 4.11.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted value to the m parameter. NOTE: third parties have disp | Jan 24, 2023 | 7.8 | 38 | NO | YES |
CVE-2019-14532CRITICAL An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.6.6. There is an off-by-one overwrite due to an underflow on tools/hashtools/hfind.cpp while using a bogus hash table. | Aug 2, 2019 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-1000838CRITICAL autopsy version <= 4.9.0 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in CaseMetadata XML Parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, | Dec 20, 2018 | 10.0 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-14531CRITICAL An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) 4.6.6. There is an out of bounds read on iso9660 while parsing System Use Sharing Protocol data in fs/iso9660.c. | Aug 2, 2019 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-40026HIGH The Sleuth Kit through 4.14.0 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the ISO9660 filesystem parser where the parse_susp() function trusts len_id, len_des, and len_src fiel | Apr 8, 2026 | 7.1 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-40024HIGH The Sleuth Kit through 4.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in tsk_recover that allows an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations outside the intended recovery dir | Apr 8, 2026 | 7.1 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-11737HIGH An issue was discovered in libtskfs.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function ntfs_fix_idxre | Jun 5, 2018 | 8.1 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-10232CRITICAL In version 4.8.0 and earlier of The Sleuth Kit (TSK), there is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the YAFFS file timestamp parsing logic in yaffsfs_istat() in fs/yaffs.c. | Mar 9, 2020 | 9.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-11740HIGH An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toU | Jun 5, 2018 | 8.1 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-11739HIGH An issue was discovered in libtskimg.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function raw_read in t | Jun 5, 2018 | 8.1 | 24 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (20 CVEs).
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