Vigil@nce - PoDoFo: information disclosure via PdfEncoding-ParseToUnicode
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Fedora.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: data reading.
– Provenance: document.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 27/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via
PdfEncoding::ParseToUnicode() of PoDoFo, in order to obtain
sensitive information.
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