CVE-2018-20861

libopenmpt before 0.3.11 allows a crash with certain malformed custom tunings in MPTM files.

Published: 2019-07-30 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-20861 is rated Moderate Risk (48.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.14%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-20861

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.41% 1.14% +0.73%
2 2025-03-30 0.65% 0.41% -0.24%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.65% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-20861

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-20861

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-20861

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2018-20861 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libopenmpt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20861
suse medium CVE-2018-20861 severity moderate: SUSE including 39 source package names (0.3.2-1.2:libopenmpt0-0.3.17-2.7.1, 0.3.32-3.4:libopenmpt0-0.3.17-2.7.1, …), 95 product×package rows across 25 product lines (Container containers/lmcache-vllm-openai, Container containers/open-webui, … (25 product lines)): Fixed 95. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20861/
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-20861 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libopenmpt), 18 status rows across 18 suites (bionic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 14, DNE 2, needed 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20861

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-20861

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openmpt libopenmpt < 0.3.11 cpe:2.3:a:openmpt:libopenmpt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-20861

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