Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2020-9549 json

In PDFResurrect 0.12 through 0.19, get_type in pdf.c has an out-of-bounds write via a crafted PDF document.

published 2020-03-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-30351

cvss
7.8
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

In PDFResurrect 0.12 through 0.19, get_type in pdf.c has an out-of-bounds write via a crafted PDF document.

Patch / fix

  • pdfresurrect Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9549

  • pdfresurrect Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.12-6ubuntu0.2
  • pdfresurrect Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.12-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • pdfresurrect Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.14-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • pdfresurrect Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 0.19-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9549

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices 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-2020-9549 updated cvss 5.5

pdfresurrect: out-of-bounds write in get_type function in pdf.c via a crafted PDF document

  • 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

1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/issues/8 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

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.