Security advisory

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  "id": "a401e5c1c870346d2ba8d82a0bea64e4719399b55a7b347fd67c2487b4c2c50b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-23804",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-23804",
    "summary": "Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-23804",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-23804",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-23804"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "9d996ed8218c33f616856389f6e252c7596350e8"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "9d996ed8218c33f616856389f6e252c7596350e8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.89.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.89.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.89.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.89.0",
            "poppler-0.89.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-23804.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:49.782854062Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html",
        "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/936"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "10.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-23804",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383898,
  "published_at": "2023-08-22T19:16:19.52+00:00"
}