๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-93653

MEDIUM 5.5

Poppler: poppler: unbounded cpu loop in splashoutputdev::tilingpatternfill via unvalidated tiling-pattern repeat count (denial of service)

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A denial of service flaw was found in Poppler's Splash backend. A crafted PDF with tiling-pattern geometry approaching the int32 boundary can cause SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill to compute an attacker-controlled repeat count that drives an excessively long loop in the pattern-fill scanline routine, without a corresponding memory allocation. An attacker could exploit this by supplying a malicious PDF to an application that renders it via Poppler's Splash backend, causing the rendering process to consume 100% CPU for an attacker-controlled, extended duration.

CWE CWE-606
Vendor red hat
Product red hat enterprise linux 10
Published Sep 18, 2026
Last Updated Sep 18, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Hardened Images
All versions affected

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93653 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537005

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Donghai Zhu (School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Gongshang University) for reporting this issue.