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Vulnerability details: VCID-1w5c-axe5-mbb5
Vulnerability ID VCID-1w5c-axe5-mbb5
Aliases CVE-2020-36023
Summary An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-36023.json
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
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epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
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epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
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epss 0.00067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00232 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00232 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
epss 0.00232 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
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epss 0.00232 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
ssvc Track https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1013
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36023
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-36023.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36023
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36023
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1013 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1013
2231510 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231510
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:20.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:20.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-36023 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36023
msg00017.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
USN-6299-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6299-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-36023.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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adjacent_network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-09T17:59:31Z/ Found at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1013
Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-09T17:59:31Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36023
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

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none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.21079
EPSS Score 0.00067
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:35:20.862456+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6299-1/ 37.0.0