Published Jul 12, 2023Sources checked Oct 31, 2026
6.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2023-3618 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
4.5.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS1.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2023-3618?
A flaw was found in libtiff. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to a segmentation fault due to a buffer overflow in the Fax3Encode function in libtiff/tif_fax3.c, resulting in a denial of service.