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CVE-2018-16369

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

• Xpdf: 4.00

References

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

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