What is CVE-2022-41842?

CVE-2022-41842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-30.

How severe is CVE-2022-41842?

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

Buffer overflow in Xpdfreader Xpdf

CVE-2022-41842

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in gfseek(_IO_FILE*, long, int) in goo/gfile.cc.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2022-09-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (34.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 34.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Xpdfreader Xpdf — versions 4.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

www.xpdfreader.com/download.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-41842?: CVE-2022-41842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-09-30.
How severe is CVE-2022-41842?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.