CVE-2023-28428 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Pdfio Project	Pdfio

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/commit/97d4955666779dc5b0665e15dd951a5c12426a31
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/security/advisories/GHSA-68x8-9phf-j7jf

History

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-03-20T14:51:43.619Z

Updated: 2025-02-25T14:52:33.971Z

Reserved: 2023-03-15T15:59:10.051Z

Link: CVE-2023-28428

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T12:38:25.331Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-20T15:15:12.360

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:55:02.730

Link: CVE-2023-28428

Redhat

No data.

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