CVE-2018-20650 — Improper Input Validation in Poppler
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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
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📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc↗2019-01-10
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