CVE-2013-4474
Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 10.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Poppler 0.14.3 - '/utils/pdfseparate.cc' Local Format String (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38817local, linuxpublished 26 Oct 2013Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.5% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- http://bugs.debian.org/723124 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56567 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-201401-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 63374 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2958-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20131028 Re: CVE request: 3 vulnerabilities in poppler and 1 in Xpdf (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4342 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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