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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-50422

low Nessus Plugin ID 253301

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an unscaled->face == NULL assertion failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c. (CVE-2025-50422)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-50422

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-50422

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-50422

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 253301

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_50422.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/21/2025

Updated: 9/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-50422

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-poppler022, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt6-devel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-poppler022, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt5, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt5-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-glib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt6-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-poppler022-qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-devel, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-poppler022-cpp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-poppler022-glib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-poppler022-glib, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-glib-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-poppler022-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-glib-devel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-qt4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-qt4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-poppler022-qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:poppler-cpp-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-cpp, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:poppler-glib-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-50422