Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-20650

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-20650.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Jan 01, 2019
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-20650: A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

Impacted Vendors

P
poppler 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106459 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/de0c0b8324e776f0b851485e0fc9622fc35695b7 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00033.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3865-1/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106459 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/de0c0b8324e776f0b851485e0fc9622fc35695b7 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00033.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3865-1/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-20650 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.