THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2549
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2549

Pdf Form Filling And Flattening Tool vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool before 3.1.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long field names.
Affected vendor
Pdf Tools Ag
Affected product
Pdf Form Filling And Flattening Tool
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-05-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2549

  • Confirm whether Pdf Tools Ag Pdf Form Filling And Flattening Tool is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2549.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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