Cyber Resilience

CVE-2018-25011

Critical

Published: 21 May 2021

Published
21 May 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0038 59.6th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2018-25011 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1 in PutLE16().

CWE(s)
CWE-787

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

webmproject
libwebp
≤ 1.0.1
redhat
enterprise linux
7.0, 8.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References