CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27778

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-03
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-824

Description

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 configurations

• freedesktop poppler (< 0.76.0) • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness

References