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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…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.6%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/de0c0b8324e776f0b851485e0fc9622fc35695b7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 106459 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-3865-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2713 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190930 [SECURITY] [DLA 1939-1] poppler security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201108 [SECURITY] [DLA 2440-1] poppler security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220925 [SECURITY] [DLA 3120-1] poppler security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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