CVE-2018-20005

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a use-after-free in mxmlWalkNext in mxml-search.c, as demonstrated by mxmldoc.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20005

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20005.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

References

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