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CVE-2020-23804

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 22, 2023 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23804
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html

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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PopplerFreedesktop0.89.0 (including)0.89.0 (including)
PopplerUbuntubionic*
PopplerUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/xenial*
PopplerUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
PopplerUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
PopplerUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
PopplerUbuntufocal*
PopplerUbuntutrusty*
PopplerUbuntuupstream*
PopplerUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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