CVE-2021-36493

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-36493 · Published 03/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-36493 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting xpdf (xpdfreader).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.88%, higher than 59.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xpdf xpdfreader	`= 4.03`	No fix yet

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in pdfimages in xpdf 4.03 allows attackers to crash the application via crafted command.

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