CVE-2026-12600

Uncontrolled memory usage in Innodata Labs’ Poppler JPX decoder

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Aug 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 26, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2026

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Description

Denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the internal JPEG2000 (JPX) decoding implementation of the Poppler fork developed by Innodata Labs. When an application processes an untrusted PDF file containing specially crafted JPXDecode images, a remote attacker can cause uncontrolled memory consumption. The flaw occurs in the JPXStream::readCodestream() function, where values controlled from the SIZ segment (such as img.nComps) are used for the memory allocation of tiles and components without adequate validation. This allows an attacker to force excessive memory allocation and cause a resource exhaustion, ultimately causing the pdftoppm process to terminate due to out-of-memory (OOM) conditions.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NINCIBE

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Innodata LabsPoppler
  • before 25/08/2026Affected

References

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