2.1

CVE-2025-11896: xpdf Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 2.1v4.0LowDeferred
AliasesSUSE-SU-2025:4434-1SUSE-SU-2025:4439-1SUSE-SU-2026:0081-1
Published 16-10-2025Last modified 17-10-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-11896 is a low (CVSS 2.1) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in xpdf. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
8/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
2.1/10
010
Low · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 16-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), a PDF object loop in a CMap, via the "UseCMap" entry, leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.17% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Suse14 products
  • poppler-qt5&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt5&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt6&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt6&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt6&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0< 25.04.0-160000.4.1
Opensuse7 products
  • poppler-qt5&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt5&distro=openSUSE Leap 16.0< 25.04.0-160000.4.1
  • poppler-qt6&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
  • poppler-qt6&distro=openSUSE Leap 16.0< 25.04.0-160000.4.1
  • poppler&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 24.03.0-150600.3.27.1
Ubuntu2 products
  • ipeAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • xpdfAll versions (No fix recorded)
Xpdf1 product

4 vendors · 24 products

References

9 links