CVE-2020-23804

HIGH

poppler 0.89.0 - Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/936

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0089
EPSS Percentile 54.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
freedesktop/poppler 0.89.0
Published Aug 22, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026