CVE-2018-20551

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-20551
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-12-28T16:29:05
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-09-11T12:15:10
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.72.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/146 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3886-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20551
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20551
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:46:31 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 15:49:42 2018-12-28T16:29Z 2018-12-28T16:29:05 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 15:49:42 2019-09-11T12:15:10 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 15:49:42 Modified Vulnerability Status updated