CVE-2013-4474
Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a destination filename.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.5%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a destination filename.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 10.48% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 26 October 2013
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- canonical/ubuntu linux · freedesktop/poppler
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 10.5% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/723124
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56567
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63374
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434Vendor Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/723124
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56567
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63374
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.