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CVE-2018-13845

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a buffer over-read in sam_parse1 in sam.c.

Affected products

• samtools htslib: 1.8

References

• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403681105
• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403681105

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