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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2019-20093 json

The PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL poi…

published 2019-12-30 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-10649

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file, because of ImageExtractor.cpp.

Patch / fix

  • libpodofo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.8+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20093

  • podofo SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.9.2-3.12.1
  • podofo openSUSE Leap 15.3 0.9.6-150300.3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1690-1SUSE-SU-2022:1316-1

  • podofo openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.10.3-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14278-1

  • podofo Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +9 more 0.9.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-20093

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-20093 updated cvss 5.5

podofo: NULL pointer dereference in PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad in PdfVariant.h

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/75/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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