CVE-2018-14329

MEDIUM 4.7CVE-2018-14329 · Published 17/07/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-14329 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability affecting htslib (htslib).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.25%, higher than 16.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
htslib htslib	`= 1.8`	No fix yet

In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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Affected versions

Patched versions

= 1.8

No fix yet

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