CVE-2013-4472

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.

Affected products

poppler: through 0.24.3; 0.24.0, 0.24.1, 0.24.2

References

http://osvdb.org/99064
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183
http://osvdb.org/99064
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183

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