CVE-2026-12600

Uncontrolled memory usage in Innodata Labs’ Poppler JPX decoder

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 25, 2026 at 10:57 AM UTC
Updated: September 28, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPoppler

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 25/08/2026
Affected range stops below 25/08/2026, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.7HIGHINCIBE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-400

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