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CVE-2018-14329

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• samtools htslib: 1.8

References

• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/736
• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/736

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