CVE-2020-27778
A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml'
02 Description
A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml'
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
- 2.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. 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
- 2020-12-03 16:46Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 16:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-10-27
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824Access of Uninitialized PointerBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- fc9c9d3d5eb495ff96e8950e3c9cecefda61a763cf1237f6313251abbde8971e
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20220925 [SECURITY] [DLA 3120-1] poppler security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
07 Fixed in
AlmaLinux 8
- evince-devel Fixed in 3.28.4-11.el8
- poppler-cpp Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-cpp-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-glib-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-qt5 Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-qt5-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
Source: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
CloudLinux 8
- evince-devel Fixed in 3.28.4-11.el8
- poppler-cpp Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-cpp-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-glib-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-qt5 Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
- poppler-qt5-devel Fixed in 20.11.0-2.el8
Derived from AlmaLinux 8. Partial coverage: only packages taken from AlmaLinux 8 are listed.
Source: CloudLinux errata, CloudLinux Inc. Derived from: AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux OS. Copyright (c) 2023 AlmaLinux OS. Licensed under MIT License. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- poppler Fixed in 0.85.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- poppler Fixed in 0.85.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- poppler Fixed in 0.85.0-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- poppler Fixed in 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.15
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 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11
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.