2020-19472 | PDF2JSON readHuffSym denial of service
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A vulnerability was found in PDF2JSON 0.70 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function DCTStream::readHuffSym
. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
An issue has been found in function DCTStream::readHuffSym in PDF2JSON 0.70 that allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service due to an invalid read of size 2 .
The weakness was released 07/22/2021. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-19472 since 08/13/2020. Access to the local network is required for this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.5
VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.5
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Partially
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08/13/2020 CVE assigned
07/22/2021 Advisory disclosed
07/22/2021 VulDB entry created
07/26/2021 VulDB last updateAdvisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2020-19472 (🔒)
Created: 07/22/2021 06:14
Updated: 07/26/2021 13:17
Changes: (2) source_cve_assigned source_cve_nvd_summary
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