Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-41842

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 30 September 2022

Published
30 September 2022
Modified
20 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-41842 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in gfseek(_IO_FILE*, long, int) in goo/gfile.cc.

CWE(s)
CWE-787

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

xpdfreader
xpdf
4.04

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References