Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-23873

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-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 2.1% (higher than 82% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)2.1%top 18.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

pdf2xml v2.0 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow in the function TextPage::dump.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/11 x_refsource_MISC