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CVE-2013-7296

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7296 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Poppler versions prior to 0.24.5, specifically within the JBIG2Stream::readSegments method, due to an incorrect format string specifier. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash applications processing crafted PDF files, resulting in a segmentation fault. While the CVSS score is 5.0, indicating a medium severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.24.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0223 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-7296Moderate

poppler: DoS due to a format string error

Dec 7, 2013

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/commit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/125710.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/105
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/97
secunia.com / advisories/56567
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56776
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/90552