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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-9359

KDE Okular before 1.10.0 allows code execution via an action link in a PDF document.

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1 Nov 2026, 09:26 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-9359

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Mar 2020, 14:15 UTC

KDE Okular before 1.10.0 allows code execution via an action link in a PDF document.

osv:CVE-2020-9359
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "KDE Okular before 1.10.0 allows code execution via an action link in a PDF document.",
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    "products": [],
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      "references": [
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AW6GJ3AKGXOMTDHNZBMSXDTWNJJRFBDH/",
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        "https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200312-1.txt",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00033.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00019.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-47",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 443710,
  "published_at": "2020-03-24T14:15:13.577+00:00"
}