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CVE-2022-38349

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

Affected products

• poppler: 22.08.0

References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4564a002bcb6094cc460bc0d5ddff9423fe6dd28
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1282
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4564a002bcb6094cc460bc0d5ddff9423fe6dd28
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1282
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html

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