CVE-2018-12035

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-12035 · Published 15/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-12035 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting yara (virustotal).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
yara virustotal	`≤ 3.7.1`	No fix yet

Description

In YARA 3.7.1 and prior, parsing a specially crafted compiled rule file can cause an out of bounds write vulnerability in yr_execute_code in libyara/exec.c.

References

bnbdr.github.io/posts/swisscheese · Exploit
VirusTotal/yara · Issue Tracking
bnbdr/swisscheese · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

yara

virustotal

≤ 3.7.1

No fix yet

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