CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-50420

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 04, 2025 | Modified: Aug 05, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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).

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Poppler Ubuntu devel *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Poppler Ubuntu jammy *
Poppler Ubuntu noble *
Poppler Ubuntu plucky *

Potential Mitigations

References