Use-after-free in Poppler - CVE-2025-52886

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Use-after-free in Poppler - CVE-2025-52886

Published: August 5, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU113638
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-52886
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Affected software:
Poppler
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Anolis OS
poppler (Ubuntu package)
poppler
poppler-help
poppler-glib-doc
poppler-utils
poppler-qt6-devel
poppler-qt6
poppler-qt5-devel
poppler-qt5
poppler-glib-devel
poppler-glib
poppler-devel
poppler-debugsource
poppler-debuginfo
poppler-cpp-devel
poppler-cpp
app-text/poppler
poppler-doc

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when reading PDF files. A remote attacker can overflow the 32bit std::atomic_int counter, trigger memory corruption and potentially compromise the affected system.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-52886

Install updates from vendor's website.

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