VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-5783
Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.06%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.06%). 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 PoDoFo::PdfVecObjects::Reserve function (base/PdfVecObjects.h). 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
- 1.06% probability · 65th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- podofo project/podofo
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.1% 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536179Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/27/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536179Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/27/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.