CVE-2018-14329: Htslib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Htslib Htslib: version 1.8 only

Published 2018-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.