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CVE-2013-4474 json

Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4342

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.5%
EPSS 10.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a destination filename.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.18.4-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4474

  • poppler openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.49.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10360-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4474 updated cvss 4.4

poppler: format string flaw in pdfseparate utility

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-cpp, poppler-glib, poppler-demos, poppler-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-38817)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-38817 Poppler 0.14.3 - '/utils/pdfseparate.cc' Local Format String local, 2013-10-26

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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