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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-50420 json

An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a crafted…

published 2025-08-04 15 mo ago modified 2026-07-18 3 mo ago also EUVD-2025-23522 , JLSEC-2026-88

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a crafted PDF file. This can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS).

Patch / fix

  • julia Poppler_jll 25.10.0+0
  • freedesktop poppler 25.07.0
  • poppler Debian 12 22.12.0-2+deb12u3
  • poppler Debian 13 25.03.0-5+deb13u2
  • poppler Debian 14 25.03.0-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50420

  • poppler Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10
  • poppler Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6
  • poppler Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm8
  • poppler Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm8
  • poppler Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50420

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 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 24.03.0-150600.3.19.1
  • poppler-qt5 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 24.03.0-150600.3.19.1
  • poppler-qt6 SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 24.03.0-150600.3.19.1
  • poppler SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 22.01.0-150400.3.38.1
  • poppler SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS +1 more 23.01.0-150500.3.23.1
  • poppler SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 0.43.0-16.64.1
  • poppler-qt SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 0.43.0-16.64.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02791-1SUSE-SU-2025:02790-1SUSE-SU-2025:02789-1SUSE-SU-2025:02788-1

  • poppler openSUSE Tumbleweed 25.08.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15416-1

CISA SSVC

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

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Landw-hub/CVE-2025-50420 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
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Poppler_jll
<25.10.0+0
25.10.0+0

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.