CVE-2020-27778

high

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-03

Updated: 2022-09-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High