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OESA-2023-1542 (CVE-2021-25786)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-08-26 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

qpdf security update

Details

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It also provides many useful capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more about how they work.

Security Fix(es):

An issue was discovered in QPDF version 10.0.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .pdf file to Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf.(CVE-2021-25786)

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25786	ADVISORY

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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It also provides many useful capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more about how they work.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nAn issue was discovered in QPDF version 10.0.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .pdf file to Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf.(CVE-2021-25786)",
  "id": "OESA-2023-1542",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:59Z",
  "published": "2023-08-26T11:05:59Z",
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      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1542"
    },
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  "summary": "qpdf security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-25786"
  ]
}

CVE-2021-25786 (GCVE-0-2021-25786)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-11 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-09 17:50

Summary

An issue was discovered in QPDF version 10.0.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .pdf file to Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-09 17:50 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list

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