CVE-2026-93311

Publication date 18 September 2026

Last updated 6 October 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was detected in Freedesktop Poppler 26.07.0. This issue affects the function SampledFunction::SampledFunction of the file poppler/Function.cc of the component SampledFunction. The manipulation of the argument BitsPerSample results in integer overflow. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2026-10-06, there is no fix for this issue from poppler developers

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:

Base score 2.1 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Attack requirements	None
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Passive
Vulnerable system - Confidentiality impact	None
Vulnerable system - Integrity impact	None
Vulnerable system - Availability impact	Low
Subsequent system - Confidentiality impact	None
Subsequent system - Integrity impact	None
Subsequent system - Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	2.1 · Low
Base + Threat score	-
Base + Environmental score	-
Base + Threat + Environmental score	-

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Base score 4.3 · Medium