CVE-2018-13988
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory
02 Description
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-07-25 23:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 09:21Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-07-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 84d39a34bddb303cc0cad8b7286a8dbf1a581cb1b4f4326f5c72cb2ca97021b7
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20181031 [SECURITY] [DLA 1562-1] poppler security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
- bugzilla.novell.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3505https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3140https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
- cgit.freedesktop.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3757-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/
- access.redhat.comRHBA-2019:0327https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- poppler Fixed in 0.69.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- poppler Fixed in 0.69.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- poppler Fixed in 0.69.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.12
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.