What is CVE-2022-28085?

CVE-2022-28085 is a high-severity vulnerability in Htmldoc Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2022-28085?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Htmldoc Project

CVE-2022-28085

A flaw was found in htmldoc commit 31f7804. A heap buffer overflow in the function pdf_write_names in ps-pdf.cxx may lead to arbitrary code execution and Denial of Service (DoS).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2022-04-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 66.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.012 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Htmldoc Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/issues/480 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/michaelrsweet/htmldoc/commit/46c8ec2b9bccb8ccabff52d998c5eee77a228348 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-28085?: CVE-2022-28085 is a high-severity vulnerability in Htmldoc Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2022-28085?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.