CVE-2026-33438
Stirling-PDF vulnerable to DoS via add-watermark
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6.5EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
26 Mar 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. Versions starting in 2.1.5 and prior to 2.5.2 have Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Stirling-PDF watermark functionality (`/api/v1/security/add-watermark` endpoint). The vulnerability allows authenticated users to cause resource exhaustion and server crashes by providing extreme values for the `fontSize` and `widthSpacer` parameters. Version 2.5.2 patches the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Stirling-Tools · Stirling-PDFWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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