CVE-2020-27778

published 2020-12-03

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…

Priority P3 37 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	poppler	< poppler 0.85.0-2 (bookworm)	poppler 0.85.0-2 (bookworm)
freedesktop	poppler	< 0.76.0	0.76.0
freedesktop	poppler	—	—
freedesktop	poppler	>= 0 < 0.85.0-2	0.85.0-2
freedesktop	poppler	>= 0 < 0.85.0-2	0.85.0-2
freedesktop	poppler	>= 0 < 0.85.0-2	0.85.0-2
freedesktop	poppler	>= 0 < 0.85.0-2	0.85.0-2
redhat	enterprise_linux	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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