CVE-2020-27778

poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 22, 2019

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. This flaw allows a remote attacker to provide a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, crashes the application, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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-824 · Access of Uninitialized Pointer