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CVE-2023-34872

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-34872 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Outline.cc for Poppler versions prior to 23.06.0, allowing a remote attacker to crash the application via a crafted PDF file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high availability impact (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 23.06.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0093 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-34872Moderate

poppler: Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open.

Jul 31, 2023

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/3XXL3L6RJOTLGCN7GLH2OLLNF4FJ4T7I
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/JQ3NYJ43U2MA7COKGMJDARZUAAOP45D4
gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/-/commit/591235c8b6c65a2eee88991b9ae73490fd9afdfe
Patch
gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/-/issues/1399
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XXL3L6RJOTLGCN7GLH2OLLNF4FJ4T7I
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ3NYJ43U2MA7COKGMJDARZUAAOP45D4
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SFBT75QHBWNMSDAHSXZQ2I3PBJWID36K
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W3H3GOWFE3C7543GMEN7LY4GWMWJ7D2G