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CVE-2018-18897

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18897 describes a memory leak vulnerability in Poppler 0.71.0, specifically within the GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile function, which has been demonstrated using pdftocairo. This issue affects various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Freedesktop, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and primarily impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.71.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.71.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: evince-0:3.28.2-8.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: okular-0:4.10.5-7.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: poppler-0:0.26.5-38.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: poppler-0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: poppler

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-18897Low

poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc

Nov 1, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2022
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Third Party Advisory
gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/issues/654
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4042-1
Third Party Advisory