Vulnerability CVE-2018-16369

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-16369 (CCN-149258)

Assigned:

2018-08-22

Published:

2018-08-22

Updated:

2019-10-03

Summary:

XRef::fetch in XRef.cc in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted pdf file, related to AcroForm::scanField, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.
Note: this might overlap CVE-2018-7453.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.9 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.9 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

4.6 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-noinfo

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-16369

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
xpdf-cve201816369-dos(149258)

Source: CCN
Type: GITHub Web site
xpdf

Source: MISC
Type: Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf

Source: CCN
Type: Xpdf Web site
Xpdf

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:2018163690000000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - medium.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018163690000000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018163690000000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201816369000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2018-09-02
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018163690000000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2018-09-02
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201816369000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2018-09-02
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201816369000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2018-09-02
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201816369000	V	CVE-2018-16369 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2018-09-02

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