Vulnerability · Published May 26, 2021 · Assigned by fedora

CVE-2021-30470

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in podofo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. An uncontrolled recursive call among PdfTokenizer::ReadArray(), PdfTokenizer::GetNextVariant() and PdfTokenizer::ReadDataType() functions can lead to a stack overflow.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12libpodofo0.9.8+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30470
Debian:13libpodofo0.9.8+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30470
Debian:14libpodofo0.9.8+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30470

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a podofo PoDoFo 0.9.7

Weakness: CWE-674

References