CVE-2018-11740: 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 libtskbase.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 tsk_UTF16toUTF8 in tsk/base/tsk_unicode.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.