CVE-2017-2820: Freedesktop Poppler

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.53.0 only

Published 2017-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.