CVE-2025-50420

Exp

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).

Published: 2025-08-04 Last update: 2025-10-09 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-50420 is rated Exploit Available (54.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2025-50420

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-50420

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-31 0.05% 0.17% +0.12%
2 2026-01-12 0.04% 0.05% +0.01%
3 2025-12-31 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-50420

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.8 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-50420

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-50420

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2025-50420: 1 source package rows (poppler); 20 state rows across 5 repos (3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 0, open 20. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-50420
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-50420 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (poppler), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-50420
suse high — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-50420/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-50420 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (poppler), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, upstream, xenial): released 6, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-50420

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-50420

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
freedesktop poppler < 25.07.0 cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-50420

URL Tags
http://freedesktop.com Not Applicable
http://poppler.com Not Applicable
https://github.com/Landw-hub/CVE-2025-50420 Exploit Third Party Advisory
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