CVE-2022-41843 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in convertToType0 in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-38928.

Published: 2022-09-30

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45010	An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.04. There is a crash in convertToType0 in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-38928.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00098.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42344
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42325&sid=7b08ba9a518a99ce3c5ff40e53fc6421

History

Tue, 20 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

Subscriptions

Xpdfreader Xpdf

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-30T04:21:36.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-20T19:40:18.943Z

Reserved: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41843

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:56:38.228Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-30T05:15:11.590

Modified: 2025-05-20T20:15:26.490

Link: CVE-2022-41843

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-476

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