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CVE-2024-42358

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-42358 is a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the PDFio library, specifically within its TTF parser, affecting msweet pdfio. A maliciously crafted TTF file can trigger an infinite loop and 100% memory utilization, potentially leading to a heap-buffer-overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:msweet:pdfio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / michaelrsweet/pdfio/commit/e4e1c39578279386b0ab9f9ac14b20a8bad4f935
Patch
github.com / michaelrsweet/pdfio/security/advisories/GHSA-4hh9-j68x-8353
ExploitVendor Advisory