CVE-2018-20004

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20004

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20004.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`3.0-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.12-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.12-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.12-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.12-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.12-2`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20004.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20004

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.