01 Record
CVE-2021-39540
An issue was discovered in pdftools through 20200714. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function Analyze::AnalyzePages() located in analyze.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in pdftools through 20200714. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function Analyze::AnalyzePages() located in analyze.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution.
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
- 1.05% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 64.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2021-09-20 15:26Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 02:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-08-23
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 84101d97ec686e8b0ec988337b5babb59387c90b0ddd1af335cf1bbc5fc8e73c
05 Affected products
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