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CVE-2020-27778


A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service.


Published

2020-12-03T17:15:13.097

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:21:49.083

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-824
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-824

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application freedesktop poppler < 0.76.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux 8.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 10.0 Yes

References