High severity · published Dec 3, 2020
CVE-2020-27778
A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML
7.5
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
before 0.76.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27778
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
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