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CVE-2020-22336 (GCVE-0-2020-22336)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-06 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-20 20:13

Summary

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-20 20:13 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list

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FKIE_CVE-2020-22336

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-07-06 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:04

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.

References

URL	Tags
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cve@mitre.org	https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/	Exploit

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	pdfcrack_project	pdfcrack	*

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GHSA-97FV-3J93-J8JM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-06 15:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 05:26

Details

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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GSD-2020-22336

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21

Details

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.

Aliases

CVE-2020-22336

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            "userInteraction": "NONE",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
          },
          "exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
          "impactScore": 5.9
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDate": "2023-08-06T14:15Z",
      "publishedDate": "2023-07-06T14:15Z"
    }
  }
}

ubuntu-cve-2020-22336

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-07-06 14:15

Modified

2026-05-20 14:52

Summary

Details

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-22336	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22336	REPORT

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          {
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      },
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}

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