CVE-2017-18186 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in QPDF.cc.

Published: 2018-02-13

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-9321	An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in QPDF.cc.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3638-1	QPDF vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00323.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/85f05cc57ffa0a863d9d9b23e73acea9410b2937
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/149
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18186
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18186

History

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Subscriptions

Qpdf Project Qpdf

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-13T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.012Z

Reserved: 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-18186

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-13T19:29:00.463

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:30.530

Link: CVE-2017-18186

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-18186 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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