CVE-2018-7454

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in XFAForm::scanFields in XFAForm.cc in xpdf 4.00 allows attackers to launch denial of service via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.

Affected products

Xpdf: 4.00

References

https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=613
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=613

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