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high 8.8

CVE-2018-20004 json

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12.

published 2018-12-10 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-12582

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

Patch / fix

  • mxml Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.12-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20004

  • mxml Arch Linux 3.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-922

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-2018-20004 updated cvss 5.9

mxml: Multiple vulnerabilities

  • 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

2.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/michaelrsweet/mxml/issues/233 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/mxml#stack-buffer-overflow-in-function-mxml_write_node referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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