Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7868

Low

Published: 15 August 2024

Published
15 August 2024
Modified
06 October 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 2.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.3th percentile
Risk Priority 4 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7868 is a low-severity Use of Uninitialized Variable (CWE-457) vulnerability in Xpdfreader Xpdf. Its CVSS base score is 2.1 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), invalid header info in a DCT (JPEG) stream can lead to an uninitialized variable in the DCT decoder. The proof-of-concept PDF file causes a segfault attempting to read from an invalid address.

CWE(s)
CWE-457CWE-908

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

xpdfreader
xpdf
≤ 4.06

Mitigating Controls

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

References