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Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-11740 · published 5 June 2018

CVE-2018-11740: Sleuthkit the sleuth kit out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Sleuthkit · The Sleuth Kit

An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

8.1 CVSS 3.0 High EPSS 1.3% · top 30.5% CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds read
8.1CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 5.8
1.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in libtskbase.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264 ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/issues/1264 ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-11740), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.