CVE-2025-43718

Published: Oct 1, 2025Updated: Oct 6, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-674

2.9LOW

NVD MITRE

Description

Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor).

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:HAttack Complexity

High

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:LAvailability

Low

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Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected Products

freedesktop

oss-projectaka freedesktop.org

Poppler

OSS Libraries

ООО «РусБИТех-Астра»

commercial·RUaka rusbitech-astra

Astra Linux Special EditionOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения

oss-projectaka fsf

PopplerLibraryLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/f54b815672117c250420787c8c006de98e8c7408

gitlab.freedesktop.org

https://github.com/ShadowByte1/CVE-Reports/blob/main/CVE-2025-43718.md

github.com

https://github.com/ShadowByte1/CVE-Reports/blob/main/CVE-2025-43718.md

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