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Vulnerability details: VCID-ppth-geez-aaab
Vulnerability ID VCID-ppth-geez-aaab
Aliases CVE-2018-20662
Summary 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 crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-20662.html
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665273
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20662
cvssv3 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4042-1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-20662.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-20662.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-20662
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20662
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4042-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
1665273 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665273
918158 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918158
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CVE-2018-20662 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20662
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-20662.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:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20662
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

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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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20662
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/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-2018-20662
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20662
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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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.6167
EPSS Score 0.00468
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
There are no relevant records.