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CVE-2018-19060

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19060 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in Poppler 0.71.0, affecting freedesktop Poppler and Canonical Ubuntu Linux, specifically within the goo/GooString.h component when processing embedded file filenames. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium) and can lead to a denial of service (A:H) due to a lack of validation before constructing a save path. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and requires user interaction (UI:R). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.71.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.71.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0174 is in the 87th 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 (3)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-19060Low

poppler: pdfdetach utility does not validate save paths

Nov 6, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2022
gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/issues/660
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3837-1
Third Party Advisory