What is CVE-2018-18897?

CVE-2018-18897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-11-02.

How severe is CVE-2018-18897?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-18897 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2018-18897

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

Published 2018-11-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.71.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux — versions 10.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 8.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 8.1, 8.2, 8.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus — versions 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/654 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18897?: CVE-2018-18897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-11-02.
How severe is CVE-2018-18897?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-18897 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.