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Vulnerability · Published Aug 22, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-37050

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in the poppler package (Debian). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12poppler22.08.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050
Debian:13poppler22.08.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050
Debian:14poppler22.08.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSpoppler22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3USN-6508-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSpoppler22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37050

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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