CVE-2018-25306

medium

Description

PDFunite 0.41.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malformed PDF files during merge operations. Attackers can trigger a segmentation fault in the XRef::getEntry function within libpoppler by providing a specially crafted PDF file to the pdfunite utility.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pdfunite-buffer-overflow-via-malformed-pdf

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44490

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+package/poppler-utils

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.57.0-2ubuntu4.2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-29

Updated: 2026-04-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00012