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CVE-2025-50420
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-08-04 · updated 2026-07-05
- Weakness: CWE-674
Description
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).
Affected products
- poppler: before 25.07.0 — fixed in 25.07.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: poppler 25.07.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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