Poppler is a widely embedded open-source PDF-rendering library that sits in the document-processing pipelines of many desktop applications, web services, and enterprise systems, making it a critical component despite its narrow product footprint. The vendor's vulnerability disclosures concentrate in parsing and memory-handling weaknesses—including improper input validation, buffer-boundary violations, and code-injection risks—that are inherent to the challenge of safely interpreting complex, untrusted PDF documents. Public exploit code for these flaws emerges with elevated frequency, reflecting both the library's accessibility and the appeal of PDF parsing as an attack vector in document workflows. Defenders should treat Poppler updates as broadly applicable to any product that embeds the library rather than tracking the library alone; remediation typically requires downstream vendors to rebuild and redistribute. Current exploitation activity, severity distribution, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Poppler over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (28 CVEs).
28 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2008-2950HIGH The Page destructor in Page.cc in libpoppler in Poppler 0.8.4 and earlier deletes a pageWidgets object even if it is not initialized by a Page constructor, which allows remote atta | Jul 7, 2008 | 7.5 | 35 | NO | YES |
CVE-2009-3603HIGH Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafte | Oct 21, 2009 | 9.3 | 33 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-3608HIGH Integer overflow in the ObjectStream::ObjectStream function in XRef.cc in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1, as used in GPdf, kdegraphics KPDF, CUPS pdftops, and te | Oct 21, 2009 | 9.3 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-3604HIGH The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allo | Oct 21, 2009 | 9.3 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-3606HIGH Integer overflow in the PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep function in Xpdf before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in kdegraphics KPDF, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary c | Oct 21, 2009 | 9.3 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-0755MEDIUM The FormWidgetChoice::loadDefaults function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file with an invalid Form Opt entry. | Mar 3, 2009 | 5.0 | 30 | NO | YES |
CVE-2009-3607HIGH Integer overflow in the create_surface_from_thumbnail_data function in glib/poppler-page.cc in Poppler 0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) | Oct 21, 2009 | 9.3 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-0756MEDIUM The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers a parsing error, whic | Mar 3, 2009 | 5.0 | 26 | NO | YES |
CVE-2005-3625HIGH Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams t | Dec 31, 2005 | 10.0 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-0165HIGH Integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, as used in Poppler and other products, when running on Mac OS X, has unspecified impact, related to "g*allocn." | Apr 23, 2009 | 10.0 | 25 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (28 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Poppler.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Poppler — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.