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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Freedesktop
  • Poppler

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References
Link Providers
http://freedesktop.com cve-icon
http://poppler.com cve-icon
https://github.com/Landw-hub/CVE-2025-50422 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/621 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1591 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1591#note_3045081 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50422 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-50422 cve-icon
History

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:30:00 +0000

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Description An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25.04.0. The heap memory containing PDF stream objects is not cleared upon program exit, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive PDF content via a memory dump. 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.
Weaknesses CWE-617
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 2.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Freedesktop
Freedesktop poppler
Vendors & Products Freedesktop
Freedesktop poppler

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title poppler: Poppler crash on malformed input
Weaknesses CWE-476
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Low

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-244
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25.04.0. The heap memory containing PDF stream objects is not cleared upon program exit, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive PDF content via a memory dump.
References
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-10T00:59:19.048Z

Reserved: 2025-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-50422

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-04T19:35:23.215Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-04T17:15:30.813

Modified: 2025-08-10T02:15:26.620

Link: CVE-2025-50422

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-08-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-50422 - Bugzilla