CVE-2024-56522 (GCVE-0-2024-56522)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in TCPDF before 6.8.0. unserializeTCPDFtag uses != (aka loose comparison) and does not use a constant-time function to compare TCPDF tag hashes.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-30 15:54 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Assigner
References
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