CVE-2020-23804

poppler: uncontrolled recursion in pdfinfo and pdftops

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 29, 2020

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in Poppler, where a uncontrolled recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption