Security advisory

{
  "id": "0848ac53e63942e9d95acde5486d925faecbf72020933d68d91de4d804a11b3d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24196",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-24196",
    "summary": "iText v7.1.17, up to (exluding)\": 7.1.18 and 7.2.2 was discovered to contain an out-of-memory error via the component readStreamBytesRaw, which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-24196",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-24196",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-24196",
        "GHSA-hhh6-cm2m-3fhc"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/itext/itext-java",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "a4ee38636686ea328e467ed72814d14fc23db35c"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6c7d50c4edaaa16de30dcdb4990350a3262609c9"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:itextpdf:itext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "7.2.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "6c7d50c4edaaa16de30dcdb4990350a3262609c9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "7.1.18"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "7.1.17",
            "7.1.16",
            "7.1.15",
            "7.1.14",
            "7.1.13",
            "7.1.12",
            "7.1.11",
            "7.1.10",
            "7.1.9",
            "7.1.8",
            "7.1.7",
            "7.1.6",
            "7.1.5",
            "7.1.4",
            "7.1.3",
            "7.1.2",
            "7.1.1",
            "7.1.0",
            "7.0.5",
            "7.0.4",
            "7.0.3",
            "7.0.2",
            "7.0.1",
            "7.0.0",
            "7.0.0-RC.20160406",
            "7.0.0-RC.20160321",
            "7.0.0-RC.20160201"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-24196.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.595616100Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/itext/itext7/releases/tag/7.1.18",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24196.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24196",
        "https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78",
        "https://github.com/itext/itext7/pull/78#issuecomment-1089279222"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24196.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-24196",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 495441,
  "published_at": "2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00"
}