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CVE-2021-36493

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in pdfimages in xpdf 4.03 allows attackers to crash the application via crafted command.

Affected products

• Xpdf: 4.03

References

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42160
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42160

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