VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-9587
It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 1.20%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.20% probability · 66th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- glyphandcog/xpdfreader
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.