PT-2023-12077

CVE-2021-25786

Published

2021-07-29

Updated

2025-04-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.3

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QPDF version 10.0.4

Description An issue was discovered in QPDF, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pdf file. The Pl ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf is vulnerable to this attack.

Recommendations For QPDF version 10.0.4, consider disabling the Pl ASCII85Decoder::write function until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416: Use After Free

Related identifiers

CVE-2021-25786

BDU:2025-04290

DLA-3548-1