CVE-2023-34872 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Freedesktop	Poppler

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/591235c8b6c65a2eee88991b9ae73490fd9afdfe
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1399
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XXL3L6RJOTLGCN7GLH2OLLNF4FJ4T7I/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ3NYJ43U2MA7COKGMJDARZUAAOP45D4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SFBT75QHBWNMSDAHSXZQ2I3PBJWID36K/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W3H3GOWFE3C7543GMEN7LY4GWMWJ7D2G/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34872
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34872

History

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-400
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-07-31T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-07-09T13:47:14.111Z

Reserved: 2023-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-34872

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:17:04.212Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-31T14:15:10.427

Modified: 2025-07-09T14:15:24.977

Link: CVE-2023-34872

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-34872 - Bugzilla

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