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CVE-2024-4568

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-4568 describes a stack overflow vulnerability in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier versions, caused by an infinite recursion when processing malformed PDF resources containing object loops. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges could trigger a denial-of-service condition, rendering the application unusable. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.05CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0, <= 4.05CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:xpdf:xpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.9LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.4
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
12.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: xpdf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-4568Low

xpdf: loop in the PDF resources leads to infinite recursion

May 6, 2024

References

xpdfreader.com / security-bug/object-loops.html
Vendor Advisory