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CVE-2010-3703

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3703 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the poppler PDF parser, specifically affecting versions up to 0.15.1. An uninitialized pointer dereference within the PostScriptFunction function can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF file, leading to application crashes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, but only resulting in partial availability impact. The EPSS and FAUCET scores are low, suggesting a minimal threat. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are virtually nonexistent, further indicating its low profile and impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0256 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: poppler-0:0.12.4-3.el6_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3703Important

poppler: use of initialized pointer in PostScriptFunction

Sep 24, 2010

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/commit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049392.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049523.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049545.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/42357
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/10/04/6
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0859.html
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1005-1