CVE-2018-8871 Memory corruption in Automation TPEditor

What is CVE-2018-8871?

CVE-2018-8871 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Delta Electronics Automation TPEditor, published on 25 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Delta Electronics Automation TPEditor version 1.89 or prior, parsing a malformed program file may cause heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability, which may allow remote code execution.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8871?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Deltaww Tpeditor.

How do I fix CVE-2018-8871?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-8871 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-8871 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8871 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Delta Electronics Automation TPEditor

• CVE-2021-33007 Memory corruption in Delta Electronics TPEditor High 7.8
• CVE-2020-27284 Memory corruption in TPEditor High 7.8
• CVE-2020-27288 Memory corruption in TPEditor High 7.8
• CVE-2020-16219 Memory corruption in Delta Electronics TPEditor High 7.8
• CVE-2020-16221 Memory corruption in Delta Electronics TPEditor High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3mmm-mj5x-47f4.