CVE-2026-18739

low

Description

A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library. An off-by-one error in the poptStuffArgs function, when repeatedly called by a host application or through deep alias nesting, can lead to corruption of internal program data. This corruption could potentially enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary code if the host application then unsafely processes the altered data.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510737

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18739

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-04

Updated: 2026-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00095