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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-5296

Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.04%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function (base/PdfParser.cpp). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

CVSS 3.0
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.04% probability · 62th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
podofo project/podofo
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.