CVE-2025-52885Use After Free in Poppler

CWE-416Use After Free11 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateNov 5

Description

Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. A use-after-free (write) vulnerability has been detected in versions Poppler prior to 25.10.0 within the StructTreeRoot class. The issue arises from the use of raw pointers to elements of a `std::vector`, which can lead to dangling pointers when the vector is resized. The vulnerability stems from the way that refToParentMap stores references to `std::vector` elements using raw pointers. These pointers may b

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages2 packages

Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 25.03.0-11.1
CVEListV5poppler/poppler< 25.10.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

7
OSV
CVE-2025-52885: Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure2025-10-10
CVEList
GHSL-2025-042: Poppler has Use-After-Free2025-10-10
OSV
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OSV
linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips vulnerabilities2025-08-05
OSV
linux-azure vulnerabilities2025-08-05

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerability2025-11-05
Red Hat
poppler: Use-After-Free in StructTreeRoot class2025-10-10
Debian
CVE-2025-52885: poppler - Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their s...2025
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