Medium severity · published Aug 22, 2023
CVE-2022-37050
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…
6.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
22.07.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37050
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37050
Patch
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990
Exploit
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html
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