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CVE-2018-13988Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 3.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
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By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181031 [SECURITY] [DLA 1562-1] poppler security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3505 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3757-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:0327 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-5920 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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