What is CVE-2018-19060?

CVE-2018-19060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-11-07.

How severe is CVE-2018-19060?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2018-19060

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

Published 2018-11-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.71.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19060?: CVE-2018-19060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-11-07.
How severe is CVE-2018-19060?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.