{"id":"CVE-2025-43718","title":"Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string","summary":"Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This…","severity":"low","cvss":2.9,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","cwe":["CWE-674"],"published":"2025-10-01","updated":"2026-09-30","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-30T23:10:00.237","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43718","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ShadowByte1/CVE-Reports/blob/main/CVE-2025-43718.md","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/f54b815672117c250420787c8c006de98e8c7408","label":"cve@mitre.org"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00134,"epssPercentile":0.02406,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-30T23:29:32.413Z","slug":"CVE-2025-43718","body":"## Overview\n\nPoppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This occurs in Dict::lookup, Catalog::getMetadata, and associated functions in PDFDoc, with deep recursion in the regex executor (std::__detail::_Executor).\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":16,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":16,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}