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Vulnerability details: VCID-q7wd-6hgf-1yea
Vulnerability ID VCID-q7wd-6hgf-1yea
Aliases CVE-2018-13988
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13988.json
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
epss 0.00538 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
cvssv3 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
cvssv3 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
Reference id Reference type URL
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13988.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-13988
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13988
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
1602838 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838
904922 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904922
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-13988 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
USN-3757-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-13988.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.66555
EPSS Score 0.00538
Published At Aug. 6, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:34:37.832626+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/ 37.0.0