Deep Dive in MarkLogic Exploitation Process via Argus PDF Converter

This post authored by Marcin Noga with contributions from William Largent

Introduction

Talos discovers and responsibly discloses software vulnerabilities on a regular basis. Occasionally we publish a deep technical analysis of how the vulnerability was discovered or its potential impact. In a previous post Talos took a deep dive into Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters, in this post we are going to focus on another converter used by MarkLogic located in `Converters/cvtpdf` folder, which is responsible for converting pdf to XML-based formats – Argus PDF. This blog will cover the technical aspects including discovery and exploitation process via the Argus PDF converter.