CVE-2018-4040

An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2

High · published December 1, 2018

CVSS v3.0
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
62.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. A specially crafted document can cause certain RTF tokens to dereference a pointer that has been uninitialized and then write to it. An attacker must convince a victim to open a specially crafted document in order to trigger this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01006 · 62.6th percentile
Published
2018-12-01T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 DEC 20:00Z
    An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2
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