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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48545 json

An infinite recursion in Catalog::findDestInTree can cause denial of service for xpdf 4.02.

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-51241

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An infinite recursion in Catalog::findDestInTree can cause denial of service for xpdf 4.02.

Patch / fix

  • poppler SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.24.4-14.41.1
  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.40.1
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.40.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1SUSE-SU-2023:4362-1

  • xpdf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 4.05-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-48545

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.