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CVE-2020-36024

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.

Affected products

• poppler: 20.12.1

References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html

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