CVE-2018-13988

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.11% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

15 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.06mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125USprimary

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Open Source poppler <= 0.62all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:freedesktop:poppler:0.62
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 16.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 18.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freedesktop poppler≤ 0.62.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ansible tower= 3.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux desktop= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux workstation= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openshift container platform= 3.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1853poppler: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2018-07-25csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in poppler ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-25modified 2026-06-17

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references (31)

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