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CVE-2020-9359

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9359 describes a code execution vulnerability in KDE Okular versions prior to 1.10.0, affecting various Debian and Fedora distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code if a user opens a specially crafted PDF document containing an action link, requiring user interaction. While the potential impact includes limited confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:okular:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 19.12.0, < 19.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:okular:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0145 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: okular-0:4.10.5-9.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-9359Moderate

okular: local binary execution via specially crafted PDF files

Mar 12, 2020

References

invent.kde.org / kde/okular/-/commit/6a93a033b4f9248b3cd4d04689b8391df754e244
PatchVendor Advisory
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20200312-1.txt
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00019.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2TY3O6UWX2XTP7PISPTZ6FYRDFU4UF66
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AW6GJ3AKGXOMTDHNZBMSXDTWNJJRFBDH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G3HL3F6JLCSRLPFZ47735F5STPJWDVR4
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-47
Third Party Advisory