What is CVE-2018-7264?

CVE-2018-7264 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Activepdf Toolkit, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2018-7264?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Activepdf Toolkit

CVE-2018-7264

The Pictview image processing library embedded in the ActivePDF toolkit through 2018.1.0.18321 is prone to multiple out of bounds write and sign errors, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable applications using the ActivePDF Toolkit to process untrusted images.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.125 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Activepdf Activepdf_toolkit
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7264?: CVE-2018-7264 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Activepdf Toolkit, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2018-7264?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.