Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-23872
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A NULL pointer dereference in the function TextPage::restoreState of pdf2xml v2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml x_refsource_MISC