CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-23804

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 22, 2023 | Modified: Dec 08, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Poppler Freedesktop 0.89.0 (including) 0.89.0 (including)
Poppler Ubuntu bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Poppler Ubuntu focal *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Poppler Ubuntu upstream *
Poppler Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References