CVE-2018-1000838

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2018-1000838 · Published 20/12/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1000838 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting autopsy (sleuthkit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
autopsy sleuthkit	`≤ 4.9.0`	No fix yet

Description

autopsy version <= 4.9.0 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in CaseMetadata XML Parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially crafted CaseMetadata.

References

0dd.zone/2018/10/28/autopsy-XXE · Third Party Advisory
sleuthkit/autopsy · Issue Tracking

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