CVE-2020-23804 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.

Published: 2023-08-22

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.89.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3620-1	poppler security update
EUVD	EUVD-2020-16544	Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.
Ubuntu USN	USN-6508-1	poppler vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00264.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/936
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23804
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-23804

History

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Subscriptions

Debian Debian Linux

Freedesktop Poppler

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:05:11.443Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-23804

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:19.520

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:14:05.240

Link: CVE-2020-23804

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-23804 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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