CVE-2018-11738: Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in libtskfs.a in The Sleuth Kit (TSK) from release 4.0.2 through to 4.6.1. An out-of-bounds read of a memory region was found in the function ntfs_make_data_run in tsk/fs/ntfs.c which could be leveraged by an attacker to disclose information or manipulated to read from unmapped memory causing a denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Sleuthkit The Sleuth Kit: from 4.0.2, up to and including 4.6.1

Published 2018-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.