CVE-2018-20551

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.72.0 - Denial of Service via Invalid Rich Media Annotation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/146
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3886-1/
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 54.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
freedesktop/poppler 0.72.0
Published Dec 28, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026