CVE-2018-20650
poppler - security update
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.36%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-20650
To remediate CVE-2018-20650, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/poppler—upgrade to 0.85.0-2 or later
- —upgrade to 0.26.5-2+deb8u11 or later
Is CVE-2018-20650 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.85.0-2
- from 0, < 0.26.5-2+deb8u11
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |