CVE-2018-16369

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.6%

Medium (5.5) in xpdfreader xpdf. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XRef::fetch in XRef.cc in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted pdf file, related to AcroForm::scanField, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2018-7453.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2018-09-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

xpdfreader:xpdf

References

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf

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