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medium 6.5

CVE-2022-38349 json

An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0.

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-40939

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 22.12.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38349

  • 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-2022-38349

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-2022-38349 updated cvss 6.5

poppler: Reachable assertion in Object.h

  • 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: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-qt5, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-qt5, poppler-glib, poppler-utils
    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
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1282 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 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

References

Sources

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