CVE-2018-11210

Publication date 16 May 2018

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

TinyXML2 6.2.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Parse function in libtinyxml2.so. NOTE: The tinyxml2 developers have determined that the reported overflow is due to improper use of the library and not a vulnerability in tinyxml2

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tinyxml2	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life, was needed
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mikesalvatore

no patch from upstream as of 2018-10-24 This CVE will likely be disputed: https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675#issuecomment-462194018

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H