Vulnerability Details : CVE-2018-6003

An issue was discovered in the _asn1_decode_simple_ber function in decoding.c in GNU Libtasn1 before 4.13. Unlimited recursion in the BER decoder leads to stack exhaustion and DoS.
Published 2018-01-22 20:29:00
Updated 2021-06-29 15:15:14
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-6003

EPSS FAQ
1.50%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 85 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2018-6003

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.0
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
 NIST
7.5
 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
3.9
3.6
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2018-6003

  • The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2018-6003

Products affected by CVE-2018-6003

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