CVE-2012-2142 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting poppler versions prior to 0.21.4, as well as products like freedesktop, openSUSE, Red Hat, and xpdfreader. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by crafting a malicious PDF with a terminal emulator escape sequence. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to potential high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its age and high CVSS score of 7.8, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.21.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:3.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.