{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-38349 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-38349 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 22 Aug 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-38349 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-38349 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 22 Aug 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-38349 exists.\n\nAffected product: Freedesktop Poppler. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38349/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38349/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-38349","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38349/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-38349","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38349","GHSA-vc2j-4f8h-8q6p","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38349"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Poppler PDF library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A reachable assertion in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"poppler","vendor":"freedesktop"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"}],"description":"An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of service because PDFDoc::replacePageDict in PDFDoc.cc lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-38349","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"freedesktop:poppler","products":["freedesktop:poppler"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-38351"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Safe Software FME Server v2021.2.5, v2022.0.0.2 and below was discovered to contain a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability which allows a","id":"CVE-2022-38342"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2023-08-22","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-21009","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-09-05"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-12293","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-05-23"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-10872","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-05"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-9543","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-03-01"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-9545","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-03-01"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in Poppler","id":"CVE-2017-2820","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-12"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-38171","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-22"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-03","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A reachable assertion in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38349/"}