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CVE-2019-5066

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the way LZW-compressed streams are processed in Aspose.PDF 19.2 for C++. A specially crafted PDF can cause a dangling heap pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition. To trigger this vulnerability, a specifically crafted PDF document needs to be processed by the target application.

Affected products

• Talos Aspose: 19.2

References

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0855
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0855

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