Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-20662

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Improper Input Validation

Improper Input Validation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-20662.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Jan 03, 2019
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-20662: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
poppler 1
F
freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/ https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
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-2018-20662 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.