What is CVE-2023-26930?

CVE-2023-26930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-04-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-26930?

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

Buffer overflow in Xpdfreader Xpdf

CVE-2023-26930

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (26.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Xpdfreader Xpdf — versions 4.04
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-26930?: CVE-2023-26930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-04-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-26930?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.