CVE-2022-38231 is a heap-buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-787) found in XPDF commit ffaf11c, specifically within the DCTStream::getChar() function in Stream.cc. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high potential for impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be triggered locally with user interaction. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xpdf_project:xpdf:3.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.