[UPDATE] [medium] poppler: Vulnerability enables denial of service
A local attacker can exploit a vulnerability in poppler to perform a denial of service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A vulnerability in poppler enables local attackers to perform denial-of-service attacks.
- Who is affected
- Local users on systems running poppler are affected.
- Urgency
- Medium urgency; local DoS requires remediation but is lower priority than code execution risks.
- Action
- Update poppler when patches are released.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Details
Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2025-1450
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-528860.37% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 30% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-52886 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for poppler
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- high[UPDATE] [high] poppler: Vulnerability allows code executioncert-bund · 2026-08-03
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] poppler: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-03
- low[UPDATE] [low] poppler: Vulnerability enables bypass of security measurescert-bund · 2026-08-03
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Poppler): Vulnerability allows code executioncert-bund · 2026-08-03
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