Vulnerability Report

CVE-2022-37051

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2022-37051.

CWE Category CWE-617

Published Date Aug 22, 2023

Modified Date Nov 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2022-37051: An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.07.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to denial of service because the main function in pdfunite.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

Impacted Vendors

poppler 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4631115647c1e4f0482ffe0491c2f38d2231337b https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1276 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/4631115647c1e4f0482ffe0491c2f38d2231337b https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1276 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2022-37051 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 22, 2023 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.