CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-24198
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-02-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
iText v7.1.17 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds exception via the component ARCFOUREncryption.encryptARCFOUR, which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file. NOTE: Vendor does not view this as a vulnerability and has not found it to be exploitable.
Affected configurations
• itextpdf itext 7.1.17
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78#issuecomment-1089287808 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78#issuecomment-1089287808 Third Party Advisory