CVE-2018-5296: Podofo Project Podofo

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function (base/PdfParser.cpp). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

Affected products

• Podofo Project Podofo: version 0.9.5 only

Published 2018-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.