Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-9838

Title: Ocaml RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-9838.

CWE Category CWE-190
Published Date Apr 06, 2018
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-9838: The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object.

Impacted Vendors

I
inria 1
O
ocaml 1

Reference Links

https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-48 https://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7765 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-48
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-9838 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.