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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2018-18873 json

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14.

published 2018-10-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-10584

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function ras_putdatastd in ras/ras_enc.c.

Patch / fix

  • jasper Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18873

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  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.900.14-195.22.1
  • jasper SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP1, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 +2 more 2.0.14-3.16.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:2690-1SUSE-SU-2020:2689-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.0.14-lp152.7.3.1
  • jasper openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.0.14-lp151.4.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1523-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1517-1

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-2018-18873 updated cvss 5.5

jasper: NULL pointer dereference in ras_putdatastd() in ras_enc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jasper, jasper-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/184 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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