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CVE-2018-11698 json

An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4.

published 2018-06-04 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-3717

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in LibSass through 3.5.4. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function Sass::handle_error which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • libsass Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11698

  • libsass Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11698

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-11698 updated cvss 7.5

libsass: Out-of-bounds read n function Sass::handle_error in sass_context.cpp

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/2662 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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