CVE-2018-20662
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by
02 Description
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-01-03 13:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 12:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-01-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 31d9c9e903b31340b5463f7fc9eb4584bd11019ae3b889890c11e00f36d1bc4b
05 Affected products
06 References
- gitlab.freedesktop.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190308 [SECURITY] [DLA 1706-1] poppler security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
- gitlab.freedesktop.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-8b5e704a73https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-14040bfa27https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-13ba3be562https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-d04944813dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4042-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:2022https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:2713https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20201108 [SECURITY] [DLA 2440-1] poppler security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- poppler Fixed in 0.71.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- poppler Fixed in 0.71.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- poppler Fixed in 0.71.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.