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Vulnerability details: VCID-sam6-g21p-27ct
Vulnerability ID VCID-sam6-g21p-27ct
Aliases CVE-2020-36024
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::convertToType1 function.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-36024.json
epss 0.00097 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36024
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epss 0.00119 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36024
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epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36024
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cvssv3.1 5.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
ssvc Track https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-36024.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-36024
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-36024
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1016 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016
2231520 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231520
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-2020-36024 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024
msg00017.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
RHSA-2024:2979 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2979
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-2020-36024.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:L/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)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

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none

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-09T17:56:32Z/ Found at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016
Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-09T17:56:32Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024
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

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.2795
EPSS Score 0.00097
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:35:20.890648+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6299-1/ 37.0.0