CVE-2022-37050 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Freedesktop	Poppler

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:22.07.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37050
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37050

History

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-07-02T14:20:40.817Z

Reserved: 2022-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-37050

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:21:32.489Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:23.657

Modified: 2025-07-02T15:15:23.600

Link: CVE-2022-37050

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-07-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-37050 - Bugzilla

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