MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-107705 (CVSS 8.3)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 8, 2026Risk 37/100
Poppler 0.42.0 through 26.10.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in Decrypt::revision6Hash() that allows attackers controlling the password to overwrite stack memory when opening AESV3/R6 encrypted PDFs. Attackers can supply a password longer than 127 bytes through applications using the libpoppler, libpoppler-glib or C++ API to overflow the K1 and E buffers, crashing the process or corrupting memory.
Technical details
CVSS
8.3
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None
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