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Medium 6.5Published Aug 3, 2025

CVE-2025-50420An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a crafted PDF file.

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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).

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CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
Modified
Record last updated
Jul 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
freedesktop poppler
freedesktop:poppler
before 25.07.0
NVD

References

References

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