Medium 6.2Published Apr 29, 2026

CVE-2018-25306PDFunite 0.41.0 Buffer Overflow via Malformed PDF

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 2:50 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

PDFunite 0.41.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malformed PDF files during merge operations. Attackers can trigger a segmentation fault in the XRef::getEntry function within libpoppler by providing a specially crafted PDF file to the pdfunite utility.

CVSS: 6.2 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-120
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Apr 30, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

poppler-utils PDFunite poppler_utils:pdfunite (from the name)	0.41.0	CNA record
canonical pdfunite canonical:pdfunite	0.41.0	NVD

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44490exploit, vdb-entry
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+package/poppler-utilsproduct
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.57.0-2ubuntu4.2product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pdfunite-buffer-overflow-via-malformed-pdfthird-party-advisory

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