VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-14043

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

mstdlib (aka the M Standard Library for C) 1.2.0 has incorrect file access control in situations where M_fs_perms_can_access attempts to delete an existing file (that lacks public read/write access) during a copy operation, related to fs/m_fs.c and fs/m_fs_path.c. An attacker could create the file and then would have access to the data.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Primary references