CVE-2025-52885 (GCVE-0-2025-52885)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-10 22:11 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
GHSL-2025-042: Poppler has Use-After-Free
Summary
Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. A use-after-free (write) vulnerability has been detected in versions Poppler prior to 25.10.0 within the StructTreeRoot class. The issue arises from the use of raw pointers to elements of a `std::vector`, which can lead to dangling pointers when the vector is resized. The vulnerability stems from the way that refToParentMap stores references to `std::vector` elements using raw pointers. These pointers may become invalid when the vector is resized. This vulnerability is a common security problem involving the use of raw pointers to `std::vectors`. Internally, `std::vector `stores its elements in a dynamically allocated array. When the array reaches its capacity and a new element is added, the vector reallocates a larger block of memory and moves all the existing elements to the new location. At this point if any pointers to elements are stored before a resize occurs, they become dangling pointers once the reallocation happens. Version 25.10.0 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-14 14:59 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-20… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/13/2 |
Impacted products
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