Low 2.9Published Sep 30, 2025

CVE-2025-43718Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expres…

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 5:10 AM ET)

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Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor).

CVSS: 2.9 LOW (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-674
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 6, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 12, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

freedesktop Poppler freedesktop:poppler (from the name)	from 24.06.1 before 25.04.0	CNA record

References

References

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/f54b815672117c250420787c8c006de98e8c7408
https://github.com/ShadowByte1/CVE-Reports/blob/main/CVE-2025-43718.md

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