CVE-2018-20662
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.59%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-20662
To remediate CVE-2018-20662, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/poppler—upgrade to 0.71.0-4 or later
Is CVE-2018-20662 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.71.0-4
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 |