CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-23872
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL pointer dereference in the function TextPage::restoreState of pdf2xml v2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).
Affected configurations
• science-miner pdf2xml 2.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10 Exploit, Third Party Advisory