CVE detail

CVE-2020-25725 — CVE-2020-25725

Published 2020-11-21 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor xpdfreader · Product xpdf · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.0

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0099

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

59.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

In Xpdf 4.02, SplashOutputDev::endType3Char(GfxState *state) SplashOutputDev.cc:3079 is trying to use the freed `t3GlyphStack->cache`, which causes an `heap-use-after-free` problem. The codes of a previous fix for nested Type 3 characters wasn't correctly handling the case where a Type 3 char referred to another char in the same Type 3 font.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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