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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2020-9359 json

KDE Okular before 1.10.0 allows code execution via an action link in a PDF document.

published 2020-03-24 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-30180

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

KDE Okular before 1.10.0 allows code execution via an action link in a PDF document.

Patch / fix

  • kde okular 1.10.0, 19.12.3
  • okular Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:19.12.3-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9359

  • okular RHEL 7 4.10.5-9.el7
  • okular-libs RHEL 7 4.10.5-9.el7
  • okular-part RHEL 7 4.10.5-9.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4024

  • okular openSUSE Tumbleweed 21.08.1-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11110-1

  • okular Alpine 3.11 19.08.3-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-9359

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

  • okular Arch Linux 19.12.3-3

arch linux advisories AVG-1113

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-2020-9359 updated cvss 5.3

okular: local binary execution via specially crafted PDF files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) okular 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-libs 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-part 4.10.5-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) okular 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-libs 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-part 4.10.5-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) okular 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-libs 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-part 4.10.5-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) okular 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-libs 4.10.5-9.el7, okular-part 4.10.5-9.el7
    fixed: vendor fix “There's no available mitigation other than don't open PDF files from untrusted sources.” RHSA-2020:4024

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

1.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.