CVE-2023-28428CWE-770

PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file

Medium · published March 20, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00221 · 12.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2023-03-20T14:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 14:51Z
    PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file
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