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CVE-2018-16717

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow exists in nph-viewgif.cgi in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox.

Affected products

• NIH Ncbi Toolbox: from 2.0.7 through 2.2.26

References

• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16717.md
• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16717.md

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