What is CVE-2019-10723?

CVE-2019-10723 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Podofo Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-04-03.

How severe is CVE-2019-10723?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-10723 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Podofo Project

CVE-2019-10723

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.

Published 2019-04-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Podofo Project — versions 0.9.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/46/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10723?: CVE-2019-10723 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Podofo Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-04-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-10723?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-10723 known to be exploited?: 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.