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CVE-2018-7186

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 3.40% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-02-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

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-2018-7186
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.40%

Original NVD Description

Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and ptaReadStream functions.

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