High 7.5Published Dec 3, 2020

CVE-2020-27778A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML.

Updated under an hour ago (Nov 2, 2026, 12:23 AM ET)

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A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-824
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

freedesktop poppler freedesktop:poppler	before 0.76.0	NVD
redhat enterprise_linux redhat:enterprise_linux	8.0	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	10.0	NVD

References

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712	exploit, issue-tracking, patch, third-party-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory

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