Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-16646

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-16646.

CWE Category CWE-835
Published Date Sep 06, 2018
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.5 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-16646: In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

Impacted Vendors

P
poppler 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/ https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-16646 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.