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high 8.8

CVE-2018-20429 json

libming 0.4.8 has a NULL pointer dereference in the getName function of the decompile.c file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-7872…

published 2018-12-24 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-12986

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libming 0.4.8 has a NULL pointer dereference in the getName function of the decompile.c file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-7872 and CVE-2018-9165.

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-2018-20429 updated cvss 3.3

ming: NULL pointer dereference in getName in decompile.c

  • 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

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/160 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/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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