What is CVE-2023-28428?

CVE-2023-28428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Michaelrsweet Pdfio, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2023-03-20.

How severe is CVE-2023-28428?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Michaelrsweet Pdfio

CVE-2023-28428

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Michaelrsweet Pdfio — versions <= 1.1.0
Pdfio_project Pdfio

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-28428?: CVE-2023-28428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Michaelrsweet Pdfio, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2023-03-20.
How severe is CVE-2023-28428?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.