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Vulnerability details: VCID-t4t8-1h7v-gygv
Vulnerability ID VCID-t4t8-1h7v-gygv
Aliases CVE-2018-16429
Summary GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str().
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-16429.json
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
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epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
epss 0.00399 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
cvssv3 4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-16429.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-16429
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16429
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/cec71705406f0b2790422f0c1aa0ff3b4b464b1b
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1361
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html
1626148 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626148
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:2.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:2.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
CVE-2018-16429 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429
USN-3767-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-1/
USN-3767-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-16429.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:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16429
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

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high

low

none

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low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.59838
EPSS Score 0.00399
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:36:59.613873+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/3767-2/ 37.0.0