8.8

CVE-2019-10872: freedesktop poppler Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 8.8v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2019-10872DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10872
Published 05-04-2019Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-10872 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in freedesktop poppler. EPSS estimates a 2.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
46/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.71%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 5
DLA-1815-1DLA-2287-1MGASA-2019-0244MGASA-2019-0245OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

Timeline

  1. 05-04-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function Splash::blitTransparent at splash/Splash.cc.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.71%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

86%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.71% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.71%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • poppler< 0.71.0-5
Freedesktop1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • poppler< 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14 | < 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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