CVE-2020-27778

HIGH

Poppler < 0.76.0 - Denial of Service via PDF to HTML Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0217
EPSS Percentile 79.9%
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-824
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
freedesktop/poppler < 0.76.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
Published Dec 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026