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CVE-2018-15161

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The libesedb_key_append_data function in libesedb_key.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb file. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in the GitHub issue comments

Affected products

• Libesedb Project Libesedb: through 2018-04-01

References

• https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/issues/43
• https://github.com/libyal/libesedb/issues/43

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