CVE-2018-15120libpango in Pango 1.40.8 through 1.42.3, as used in hexchat and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 11.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
libpango in Pango 1.40.8 through 1.42.3, as used in hexchat and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted text with invalid Unicode sequences.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Libpango 1.40.8 - Denial of Service (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 45263dos, multiplepublished 27 Aug 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 45263 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.4% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- 45263 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3750-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201811-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [distributor-list] 20180820 A critical pango fix (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/16/ps4s-are-reportedly-being-bricked-and-sony-is-working-on-a-fix (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-7002 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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