CVE-2018-20650Improper Input Validation in Poppler

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 1
Latest updateMay 13

Description

A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 0.85.0-2+3
Ubuntufreedesktop/poppler< 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.15+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, Enterprise Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-333m-9882-vwgr: A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 02022-05-13
OSV
poppler vulnerabilities2019-01-22
OSV
CVE-2018-20650: A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 02019-01-01
CVEList
CVE-2018-20650: A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 02019-01-01

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerabilities2019-01-22
Red Hat
poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc2018-12-28
Debian
CVE-2018-20650: poppler - A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to c...2018

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc2019-01-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc [fedora-all]2019-01-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20650 mingw-poppler: poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc [fedora-all]2019-01-10
CVE-2018-20650 — Improper Input Validation in Poppler | cvebase