CVE-2023-26930

low-risk
Published 2023-04-26

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.”

Do I need to act?

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0.04% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Xpdfreader

References (4)

Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
Exploit https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted
Third Party Advisory https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
Exploit https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal