6.5

CVE-2022-37050: debian debian_linux Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-37050DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050
Published 22-08-2023Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-37050 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.08%
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 8 · Related 6
DLA-3620-1DLA-4141-1SUSE-SU-2023:3947-1SUSE-SU-2023:3981-1SUSE-SU-2023:3982-1SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1

Timeline

  1. 22-08-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.08%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

65%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.08% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.08%

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

Debian2 products
Freedesktop1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • poppler< 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm4 | < 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm2 | < 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4 | < 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3

3 vendors · 4 products

References

8 links