Vulnerability CVE-2020-23872
Published: 2021-11-10

Description:
A NULL pointer dereference in the function TextPage::restoreState of pdf2xml v2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS).

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Science-miner -> Pdf2xml 

 References:
https://github.com/Aurorainfinity/Poc/tree/master/pdf2xml
https://github.com/kermitt2/pdf2xml/issues/10
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