CVE-2021-39540

7.8 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.8) in pdftools project pdftools. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 64% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2021-09-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pdftools_project:pdftools

References

https://github.com/leonhad/pdftools/issues/2
https://github.com/leonhad/pdftools/issues/2

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