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CVE-2025-52886 Detail

Description

Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions prior to 25.06.0 use `std::atomic_int` for reference counting. Because `std::atomic_int` is only 32 bits, it is possible to overflow the reference count and trigger a use-after-free. Version 25.06.0 patches the issue.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-BT 5.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/04bd91684ed41d67ae0f10cde0660e4ed74ac203 GitHub, Inc.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/ac36affcc8486de38e8905a8d6547a3464ff46e5 GitHub, Inc.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1581 GitHub, Inc.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1828 GitHub, Inc.
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2025-054_poppler/ GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-52886
NVD Published Date:
07/02/2025
NVD Last Modified:
07/03/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.