CVE-2025-50420

Publication date 4 August 2025

Last updated 28 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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).

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	25.04 plucky	Fixed 25.03.0-3ubuntu1.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.6
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.10
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm8
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm8

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1849

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7708-1
poppler vulnerability
20 August 2025