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Vulnerability details: VCID-mw2f-2u1d-pbep
Vulnerability ID VCID-mw2f-2u1d-pbep
Aliases CVE-2020-27778
Summary 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' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-27778.json
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
epss 0.0028 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-27778.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-27778
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27778
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
1900712 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-27778 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
RHSA-2021:1881 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1881
USN-4646-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4646-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-27778.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 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: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778
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

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high

low

none

high

low

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low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.51091
EPSS Score 0.0028
Published At Sept. 21, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:33:08.835394+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.16/main.json 37.0.0