CVE-2018-14617

highpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.025 · 85 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.51% (85th) EPSS
CVSS 7.1 · high
Is it mine?
68 products
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Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.1–7.1

v2.07.1highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.9
v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6
v3.05.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.15.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
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weaknesses

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CWE-476USprimaryCWE-476US
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affected products (68)

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also known as (4)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2018-07-27modified 2026-06-17
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references (30)

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