CVE-2025-50422 — Reachable Assertion in Cairo

CWE-617 — Reachable AssertionCWE-476 — NULL Pointer DereferenceCWE-244 — Heap Inspection6 documents6 sources
Severity
2.9LOWNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Cairographics CairoDebian CairoMsrc Azl3 Cairo 1.18.0-1 ON Azure Linux 3.0+1 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 4
Latest updateAug 12

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 1.4 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5cairographics/cairo1.18.4
▶debiandebian/cairo

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2025-50422: Cairo through 1↗2025-08-04
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GHSA
GHSA-6f98-2v97-grfv: An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25↗2025-08-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Microsoft
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.↗2025-08-12
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Red Hat
poppler: Poppler crash on malformed input↗2025-08-04
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Debian
CVE-2025-50422: cairo - Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an "unscaled->face...↗2025
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