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Vulnerability details: VCID-ntc2-c76w-nkhr
Vulnerability ID VCID-ntc2-c76w-nkhr
Aliases CVE-2012-2142
Summary The error function in Error.cc in poppler before 0.21.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142
Reference id Reference type URL
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-2142.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-2142
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2142
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6
487773 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487773
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:3.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:3.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2012-2142 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.59692
EPSS Score 0.00397
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T10:07:03.923073+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142 37.0.0