Vulnerability in PoDoFo (CVE-2026-44348)
Summary
Vulnerability in PoDoFo (CVE-2026-44348). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.0.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
PoDoFo is a C++17 PDF manipulation library. From 1.0.0 to before 1.0.4, a double-free vulnerability exists in compute_hash_to_sign() in src/podofo/private/OpenSSLInternal_Ripped.cpp. If EVP_DigestFinal fails after buf has already been freed, the Error label frees buf a second time, causing heap corruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.4.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-44348 has been found in PoDoFo.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 2.5/10.
What to do: upgrade PoDoFo to 1.0.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "PoDoFo CVE-2026-44348" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-44348 (PoDoFo) — CWE-415 / CVSS v3 2.5
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated
Patched: 1.0.4 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-415) exists in PoDoFo.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of PoDoFo.
Severity: Low (CVSS 2.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.0.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'PoDoFo' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'PoDoFo' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
PoDoFoを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade PoDoFo to 1.0.4ステージング環境で 1.0.4 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44348 libpodofo