CVE-2020-23873

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

pdf2xml v2.0 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow in the function TextPage::dump.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.htmlTechnical Description
https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/11Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.htmlTechnical Description
https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/11Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 10, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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