CVE-2025-50420 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Poppler

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Freedesktop Poppler
Timeline
PublishedAug 4
Latest updateAug 20

Description

An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a crafted PDF file. This can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS).

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDfreedesktop/poppler< 25.07.0
▶Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 25.03.0-5+deb13u2+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-ppc9-vw33-pg6g: An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25↗2025-08-04
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OSV
CVE-2025-50420: An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25↗2025-08-04
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CVEList
CVE-2025-50420: An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25↗2025-08-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerability↗2025-08-20
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Debian
CVE-2025-50420: poppler - An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attac...↗2025
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