CVE-2020-27778
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service.
How to fix CVE-2020-27778
To remediate CVE-2020-27778, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/poppler—upgrade to 0.76.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 0.85.0-2 or later
Is CVE-2020-27778 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.76.0-r0
- from 0, < 0.85.0-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |