CVE-2018-20662
moderate-risk
Published 2019-01-03
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
Do I need to act?
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0.59% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (20)
Affected Vendors
References (22)
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
and 2 more references
47
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
2/34 · Minimal
Exposure
21/34 · High