Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-24198

Medium

Published: 01 February 2022

Published
01 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0028 52.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-24198 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Itextpdf Itext. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

iText v7.1.17 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds exception via the component ARCFOUREncryption.encryptARCFOUR, which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. NOTE: Vendor does not view this as a vulnerability and has not…

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found it to be exploitable.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

itextpdf
itext
7.1.17

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References