VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-21009
Poppler before 0.66.0 has an integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.89%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.89%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Poppler before 0.66.0 has an integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.89% probability · 79th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- Affected
- freedesktop/poppler
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/0868c499a9f5f37f8df5c9fef03c37496b40fc8aPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00033.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/0868c499a9f5f37f8df5c9fef03c37496b40fc8aPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00033.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.