CVE-2023-26930

MEDIUM EPSS 25.4%
Published Apr 26, 20233y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Apr 26, 2023 3y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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.”

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
25.4% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-120

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
xpdfreaderxpdf4.04any

References 2

  • gist.github.com https://gist.github.com/huanglei3/10e2a9bd07a109995b20ade306612a34
    Third Party Advisory
  • github.com https://github.com/huanglei3/xpdf_aborted
    Exploit

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.