CVE-2023-28428 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-28428: PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file

Vendor Michaelrsweet
Product pdfio
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published March 20, 2023
Last update February 25, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.2/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 20, 2023 CVE published
February 25, 2025 Record updated