CVE-2020-35702
poppler: heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted PDF document
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · December 20, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in poppler. This flaw allows a remote attacker to provide a specially crafted PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftops' program, leads to a crash or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Statement
The versions of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not affected by this flaw, as the vulnerable code was introduced in a newer version of the package.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write