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CVE-2017-2820

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 12, 2017 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:16 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsPopplerPoppler

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99497
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321

CVSS

8.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190

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