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Podofo Project Podofo: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Podofo Project Podofo has 63 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 3 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs63
Last 12 months0
Critical3
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2025-46205High (8.1)0.40%—Oct 1, 2025
A heap-use-after free in the PdfTokenizer::ReadDictionary function of podofo v0.10.0 to v0.10.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by supplying a crafted PDF file. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier…
CVE-2025-9394Low (1.9)0.21%—Aug 24, 2025
A flaw has been found in PoDoFo 1.1.0-dev. This issue affects the function PdfTokenizer::DetermineDataType of the file src/podofo/main/PdfTokenizer.cpp of the component PDF Dictionary Parser. Executing manipulation can…
CVE-2023-31568High (8.8)0.76%—May 10, 2023
Podofo v0.10.0 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the component PoDoFo::PdfEncryptRC4::PdfEncryptRC4.
CVE-2023-31567High (8.8)0.75%—May 10, 2023
Podofo v0.10.0 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow via the component PoDoFo::PdfEncryptAESV3::PdfEncryptAESV3.
CVE-2023-31566High (8.8)0.74%—May 10, 2023
Podofo v0.10.0 was discovered to contain a heap-use-after-free via the component PoDoFo::PdfEncrypt::IsMetadataEncrypted().
CVE-2023-31556Medium (6.5)0.70%—May 10, 2023
podofoinfo 0.10.0 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function PoDoFo::PdfDictionary::findKeyParent.
CVE-2023-31555Medium (6.5)0.64%—May 10, 2023
podofoinfo 0.10.0 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function PoDoFo::PdfObject::DelayedLoad.
CVE-2023-2241High (7.8)0.37%—Apr 22, 2023
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in PoDoFo 0.10.0. Affected is the function readXRefStreamEntry of the file PdfXRefStreamParserObject.cpp. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer…
CVE-2020-18972Medium (5.5)0.76%—Aug 25, 2021
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in PoDoFo v0.9.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via 'IsNextToken' in the component 'src/base/PdfToenizer.cpp'.
CVE-2020-18971Medium (5.5)0.68%—Aug 25, 2021
Stack-based Buffer Overflow in PoDoFo v0.9.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the component 'src/base/PdfDictionary.cpp:65'.
CVE-2021-30472High (7.8)0.76%—May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. A stack-based buffer overflow in PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeOwnerKey function in PdfEncrypt.cpp is possible because of a improper check of the keyLength value.
CVE-2021-30471Medium (5.5)0.73%—May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. An uncontrolled recursive call in PdfNamesTree::AddToDictionary function in src/podofo/doc/PdfNamesTree.cpp can lead to a stack overflow.
CVE-2021-30470Medium (5.5)0.69%—May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. An uncontrolled recursive call among PdfTokenizer::ReadArray(), PdfTokenizer::GetNextVariant() and PdfTokenizer::ReadDataType() functions can lead to a stack overflow.
CVE-2021-30469Medium (5.5)0.70%—May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. An use-after-free in PoDoFo::PdfVecObjects::Clear() function can cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.
CVE-2019-20093Medium (5.5)1.4%—Dec 30, 2019
The PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file, because of ImageExtractor.cpp.
CVE-2019-10723Medium (5.5)0.98%—Apr 3, 2019
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.
CVE-2019-9687Critical (9.8)2.2%—Mar 11, 2019
PoDoFo 0.9.6 has a heap-based buffer overflow in PdfString::ConvertUTF16toUTF8 in base/PdfString.cpp.
CVE-2018-20797Medium (6.5)1.4%—Feb 27, 2019
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. There is an attempted excessive memory allocation in PoDoFo::podofo_calloc in base/PdfMemoryManagement.cpp when called from PoDoFo::PdfPredictorDecoder::PdfPredictorDecoder in…
CVE-2019-9199High (8.8)2.6%—Feb 26, 2019
PoDoFo::Impose::PdfTranslator::setSource() in pdftranslator.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6 has a NULL pointer dereference that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the podofoimpose binary. It allows an…
CVE-2018-20751High (8.8)1.6%—Feb 4, 2019
An issue was discovered in crop_page in PoDoFo 0.9.6. For a crafted PDF document, pPage->GetObject()->GetDictionary().AddKey(PdfName("MediaBox"),var) can be problematic due to the function GetObject() being called for…
CVE-2018-19532High (8.8)1.7%—Nov 26, 2018
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the function PdfTranslator::setTarget() in pdftranslator.cpp of PoDoFo 0.9.6, while creating the PdfXObject, as demonstrated by podofoimpose. It allows an attacker to…
CVE-2018-14320Medium (6.5)2.4%—Sep 17, 2018
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of PoDoFo. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious…
CVE-2018-12983High (7.8)0.99%—Jun 29, 2018
A stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey() function in PdfEncrypt.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 could be leveraged by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.
CVE-2018-12982Medium (5.5)1.1%—Jun 29, 2018
Invalid memory read in the PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad() function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 allows remote attackers to have denial-of-service impact via a crafted file.
CVE-2018-11256Medium (6.5)1.4%—May 18, 2018
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. The function PdfDocument::Append() in PdfDocument.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a…
CVE-2018-11255Medium (5.5)1.1%—May 18, 2018
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. The function PdfPage::GetPageNumber() in PdfPage.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a…
CVE-2018-11254Medium (5.5)1.1%—May 18, 2018
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. There is an Excessive Recursion in the PdfPagesTree::GetPageNode() function of PdfPagesTree.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service…
CVE-2018-8002High (8.8)8.0%—Mar 9, 2018
In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists an infinite loop vulnerability in PdfParserObject::ParseFileComplete() in PdfParserObject.cpp which may result in stack overflow. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause…
CVE-2018-8001High (7.8)1.3%—Mar 9, 2018
In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in UnescapeName() in PdfName.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other…
CVE-2018-8000High (8.8)2.8%—Mar 9, 2018
In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in PoDoFo::PdfTokenizer::GetNextToken() in PdfTokenizer.cpp, a related issue to CVE-2017-5886. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability…

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter1
  2. T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution1

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