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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-43903

🗓️ 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Poppler before 25.04.0 does not verify adbe.pkcs7.sha1 signatures, enabling forgery (CVE-2025-43903).

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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

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patch available.

  - NSSCryptoSignBackend.cc in Poppler before 25.04.0 does not verify the adbe.pkcs7.sha1 signatures on
    documents, resulting in potential signature forgeries. (CVE-2025-43903)

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:poppler");
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  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Misc.");

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Debian Linux-12": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "12",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "gir1.2-poppler-0.18"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-cpp-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-cpp0v5"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib-doc"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib8"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-private-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt5-1"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt5-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt6-3"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt6-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler126"},
          {"reference": "poppler-utils"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Debian Linux-11": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "11",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "gir1.2-poppler-0.18"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-cpp-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-cpp0v5"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib-doc"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-glib8"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-private-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt5-1"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler-qt5-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpoppler102"},
          {"reference": "poppler-utils"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-10": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
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        "release": "10",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "poppler"},
          {"reference": "poppler-cpp"},
          {"reference": "poppler-cpp-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib-doc"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt6"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt6-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-utils"}
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      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6": {
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        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "poppler"},
          {"reference": "poppler-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt4"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt4-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-utils"}
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      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
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          {"reference": "poppler"},
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  "CentOS Linux-8": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
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          {"reference": "poppler-glib"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-glib-doc"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt5"},
          {"reference": "poppler-qt5-devel"},
          {"reference": "poppler-utils"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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14 Sep 2025 00:00Current
5Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5
CVSS 3.13.3 - 4.3
EPSS0.00032
SSVC
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