CVE-2018-16842

CRITICALNVD 4.49.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-14. NVD baseline CVSS 4.4; sources differ by 4.7.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2018-8638 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.1%CVSS: 4.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.

CVSS v3
4.4
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation2.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
2.1%
EPSS %ILE
81st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
2.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 31, 2018

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, redhat.
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 4331-1] curl security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4331
Web page

cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201903-03) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 1568-1] curl security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
GitHub commit

commit d530e92f59ae (curl/curl)

Fix landed in curl/curl commit d530e92f59ae — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d530e92f59ae9bb2d47066c3c460b25d2ffeb211
Web page

curl - warning message out-of-buffer read - CVE-2018-16842

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16842.html
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

1644124 – (CVE-2018-16842) CVE-2018-16842 curl: Heap-based buffer over-read in the curl tool warning formatting

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 6.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16842
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2181

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-16842(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibcurl3 (7.22.0-3ubuntu4.24) @ precise2026-11-02ubuntu
ubuntulibcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.11) @ xenial2026-11-02ubuntu
redhatansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-282020-02-18redhat
redhatcurl-0:7.29.0-54.el72019-08-06redhat
redhatpatch2019-06-18redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(26 across 26 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
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curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
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curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
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curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
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curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.5(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.61.1-r1: fixed in 7.61.1-r1
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Alpine:v3.6(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.61.1-r1: fixed in 7.61.1-r1
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Alpine:v3.7(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.61.1-r1: fixed in 7.61.1-r1
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.61.1-r1: fixed in 7.61.1-r1
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • 7.14.1 up to 7.62.0-r0: fixed in 7.62.0-r0
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • every version up to 7.62.0-1: fixed in 7.62.0-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • every version up to 7.62.0-1: fixed in 7.62.0-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • every version up to 7.62.0-1: fixed in 7.62.0-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl—
  • every version up to 7.62.0-1: fixed in 7.62.0-1
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Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl7.38.0-4 ... 7.38.0-4+deb8u9 (13 versions)
  • every version up to 7.38.0-4+deb8u13: fixed in 7.38.0-4+deb8u13
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Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
curl7.52.1-5 ... 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 (8 versions)
  • every version up to 7.52.1-5+deb9u8: fixed in 7.52.1-5+deb9u8
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(3)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 94× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 255 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 155 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 14:06 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 14:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  5. 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  6. 2026-11-01 14:12 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-11-01 14:12 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-01 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  9. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  10. 2026-10-31 14:20 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-31 14:20 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-31 14:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  14. 2026-10-30 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-30 14:27 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-30 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  18. 2026-10-29 14:36 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-29 14:36 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-29 14:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  21. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  22. 2026-10-28 14:44 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-28 14:44 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-28 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  25. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
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  1. 2026-10-27 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 14:21 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 14:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  4. 2026-10-26 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 14:12 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-26 14:12 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-26 14:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  8. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 13:50 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 13:50 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-25 13:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  12. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  13. 2026-10-24 13:57 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-24 13:57 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-24 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  16. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  17. 2026-10-23 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-23 14:06 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-23 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  20. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  21. 2026-10-22 14:13 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-22 14:13 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-22 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  24. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  25. 2026-10-21 14:18 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-21 14:18 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-21 14:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  28. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  29. 2026-10-20 13:57 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-20 13:57 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-20 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  32. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  33. 2026-10-19 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-19 13:08 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-19 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  36. 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  37. 2026-10-18 12:00 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-18 12:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  39. 2026-10-18 10:17 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  41. 2026-10-17 11:09 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-17 11:09 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-17 11:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  44. 2026-10-16 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  45. 2026-10-16 11:15 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-16 11:15 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-16 11:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  48. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  49. 2026-10-15 11:21 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-15 11:21 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-15 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  52. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  53. 2026-10-14 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-14 07:04 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-14 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  56. 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  57. 2026-10-13 02:21 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-13 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wh7w-vjg6-xh6h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  59. 2026-10-12 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-10-12 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  61. 2026-10-12 00:39 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-10-11 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
  63. 2026-10-10 19:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 81st percentile
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  71. 2026-09-30 14:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  72. 2026-09-30 09:55 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-28 17:12 UTCOSV refresh
  74. 2026-09-28 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile
  75. 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 2.1% · 80th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2018-16842?
CVE-2018-16842 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 31, 2018. Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.
When was CVE-2018-16842 made public?
CVE-2018-16842 was made public on October 31, 2018: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 31, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-16842 actively exploited?
CVE-2018-16842 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (81st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-16842?
CVE-2018-16842 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.4 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.1 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2018-16842?
A fix for CVE-2018-16842 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2018-16842 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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