CVE-2021-39540

7.8 HIGH

An issue was discovered in pdftools through 20200714

Published: 2021-09-20 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-787

Affected products

Vendor	Product
pdftools_project	pdftools

Description

An issue was discovered in pdftools through 20200714. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function Analyze::AnalyzePages() located in analyze.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39540
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/leonhad/pdftools/issues/2
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/leonhad/pdftools/issues/2

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