Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-9903

Title: Freedesktop Poppler RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-9903.

CWE Category CWE-787
Published Date Mar 21, 2019
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-9903: PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Impacted Vendors

P
poppler 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/ https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/ https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-9903 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.