{"id":"CVE-2020-22336","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-22336","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:32:13.338Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2023-07-06T14:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:04:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["pdfcrack project/pdfcrack"],"epss":{"score":0.01199,"percentile":0.67937,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00004.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00004.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-22336","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}