CVE-2018-13988

Poppler vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

3.1%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Affected vendor

Freedesktop

Affected product

Poppler

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Published

2018-07-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-13988

Confirm whether Freedesktop Poppler is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-13988.
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