VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-9587

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-03-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references