CVE-2018-14320

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of PoDoFo. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within PdfEncoding::ParseToUnicode. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a memory corruption condition. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-5673.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14320

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14320.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-36

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.9.7-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.6+dfsg-4
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.6+dfsg-4
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.6+dfsg-4
debian debiansidfixed0.9.6+dfsg-4
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.6+dfsg-4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.