Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-38171

High

Published: 22 August 2022

Published
22 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-38171 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Xpdf prior to version 4.04 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIG2Stream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to…

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the vulnerability described by CVE-2021-30860 (Apple CoreGraphics).

CWE(s)
CWE-190

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

xpdfreader
xpdf
4.04
freedesktop
poppler
≤ 22.09.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References