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Vulnerability details: VCID-n5g5-suub-wqaz
Vulnerability ID VCID-n5g5-suub-wqaz
Aliases CVE-2018-13033
Summary The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by _bfd_elf_parse_attributes in elf-attrs.c and bfd_malloc in libbfd.c. This can occur during execution of nm.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
cvssv3 2.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13033.json
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
epss 0.01475 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
cvssv3 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13033
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13033
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3032
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13033.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13033
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13033
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23361
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104584
1597436 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597436
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-13033 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13033
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:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13033.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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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)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13033
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13033
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 0.80148
EPSS Score 0.01475
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:37:42.418266+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ 37.0.0