2.9

CVE-2025-43718: freedesktop poppler Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 2.9v3.1LowDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43718USN-7803-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43718
Published 01-10-2025Last modified 06-10-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-43718 is a low (CVSS 2.9) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in freedesktop poppler. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
12/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
2.9/10
010
Low · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 3
RHSA-2026:7364SUSE-SU-2025:3779-1SUSE-SU-2025:3900-1SUSE-SU-2025:3910-1

Timeline

  1. 01-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.13% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.13%

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

Debian1 product
  • poppler< 22.12.0-2+deb12u2 | < 25.03.0-5+deb13u3 | < 25.03.0-10
Freedesktop1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • popplerAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 25.03.0-10 | < 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.11 | < 24.02.0-1ubuntu9.7

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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