PT-2021-10923 · Pdfcorner · Text2Pdf

Shijin0925 · Published 2021-11-03 · Updated 2021-11-05 · CVE-2020-23680

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pdfcorner text2pdf version 1.1

Description An issue was discovered in the StartPage function in text2pdf.c, allowing attackers to cause denial of service or possibly other undisclosed impacts.

Recommendations For pdfcorner text2pdf version 1.1, consider disabling the StartPage function in text2pdf.c as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-23680

Affected Products

Text2Pdf

References · 5

• https://github.com/philips/text2pdf/issues/1 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-23680 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23680 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/31735 · Telegram Post
• http://eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf · Note