Improper Input Validation Affecting poppler package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.21% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-POPPLER-10078167
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14520  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for poppler.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1