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Vulnerability details: VCID-4wvj-4tta-euhv
Vulnerability ID VCID-4wvj-4tta-euhv
Aliases CVE-2018-18606
Summary binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_add_merge_section in merge_strings function in merge.c
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.0
Risk 1.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-18606.json
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
epss 0.00678 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
cvssv3 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-18606.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-18606
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18606
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1647415 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647415
USN-4336-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-18606.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.71473
EPSS Score 0.00678
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T14:21:48.740151+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-18606.json 38.0.0