CVE-2023-26930

Published Apr 26, 2023

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified
CNA Tags: disputed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-120

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "FDB8219E-FA52-45B5-A332-CE34400630BC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References