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CVE-2020-23872

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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

• Science-Miner Pdf2Xml: 2.0

References

• https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml
• https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10
• https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml
• https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10

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