PT-2017-18295 · Sublime Text · Sublime Text

Published 2017-07-05 · Updated 2017-12-05 · CVE-2017-8368

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sublime Text version 3 Build 3126

Description The issue allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .mkv file. A potential threat model involves a victim obtaining an untrusted crafted file from a remote location and issuing several user-defined commands.

Recommendations For Sublime Text version 3 Build 3126, as a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of crafted .mkv files and limiting the execution of user-defined commands until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8368

Affected Products

Sublime Text

References · 3

• 🔥❌ https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8368 · Exploit, Deleted
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8368 · Security Note
• https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1700 · Note