CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-4038
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-131
Description
An exploitable arbitrary write vulnerability exists in the open document format parser of the Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2, while trying to null-terminate a string. A specially crafted document can allow an attacker to pass an untrusted value as a length to a constructor. This constructor will miscalculate a length and then use it to calculate the position to write a null byte. This can allow an attacker to corrupt memory, which can result in code execution under the context of the application. An attacker must convince a victim to open a specially crafted document in order to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• atlantiswordprocessor atlantis word processor 3.2.7.1
• atlantiswordprocessor atlantis word processor 3.2.7.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0711 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0711 Exploit, Third Party Advisory