Vulnerability · Published Sep 20, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-39543

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in pdftools through 20200714. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function Analyze::AnalyzeRoot() located in analyze.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/leonhad/pdftools/issues/1 x_refsource_MISC