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CVE-2018-13420

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.53% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-07-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2018-13420
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.53%

Original NVD Description

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program