SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-37051

There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.13%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.13% probability · 65th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-617
Affected
freedesktop/poppler · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.