Vulnerability · Published Aug 4, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-50422
Low 2.9
In plain English
A low-severity security flaw in Cairo from cairographics. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)2.9Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 82.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an "unscaled->face == NULL" assertion failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | cairo | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Debian:13 | cairo | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Debian:14 | cairo | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | cairo | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | cairo | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | cairo | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | cairo | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50422 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | cairo | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-50422 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| cairographics | Cairo | 0 – through 1.18.4 |
Weakness: CWE-617 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L