CVE-2020-18972

medium

Published — · Modified —

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in PoDoFo v0.9.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via 'IsNextToken' in the component 'src/base/PdfToenizer.cpp'.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Arch Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Affected	—
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-18972

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.