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CVE-2022-24198

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

iText v7.1.17 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds exception via the component ARCFOUREncryption.encryptARCFOUR, which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. NOTE: Vendor does not view this as a vulnerability and has not found it to be exploitable.

Affected products

• Apryse iText: 7.1.17

References

• https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78
• https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78#issuecomment-1089287808
• https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78
• https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78#issuecomment-1089287808

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