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CVE-2022-37050 json

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by cra…

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-39704

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 22.08.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050

  • poppler Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4
  • poppler Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3
  • poppler Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm4
  • poppler Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37050

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • poppler SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +10 more 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
  • poppler SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS +1 more 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2
  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.35.2
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.35.2
  • poppler SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.24.4-14.36.2
  • poppler SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP5, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 +1 more 22.01.0-150400.3.11.2
  • poppler-qt5 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 22.01.0-150400.3.11.2
  • poppler-qt6 openSUSE Leap 15.4 22.01.0-150400.3.11.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:3998-1SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1SUSE-SU-2023:3982-1SUSE-SU-2023:3981-1SUSE-SU-2023:3947-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-37050 updated cvss 6.5

poppler: abort in PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-cpp, poppler-glib, poppler-demos, poppler-utils, +4 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-qt5, poppler-glib, poppler-utils, gimp-flatpak-container
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-qt5, poppler-glib, poppler-utils, libreoffice-flatpak-container
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cups-container Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 cups-container
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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