What is CVE-2020-19468?

CVE-2020-19468 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Flowpaper Pdf2json, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2020-19468?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-19468 known to be exploited?

4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NULL pointer dereference in Flowpaper Pdf2json

CVE-2020-19468

An issue has been found in function EmbedStream::getChar in PDF2JSON 0.70 that allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service due to a null pointer derefenrece (invalid read of size 8) .

EPSS: 0.006 (46.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Flowpaper Pdf2json — versions 0.70
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-19468?: CVE-2020-19468 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Flowpaper Pdf2json, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-19468?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-19468 known to be exploited?: 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.