What is CVE-2010-0207?

CVE-2010-0207 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-10-30.

How severe is CVE-2010-0207?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Poppler

CVE-2010-0207

In xpdf, the xref table contains an infinite loop which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) in xpdf-based PDF viewers.

Published 2019-10-30 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (56.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Poppler — versions 0.26.5-2
Xpdfreader Xpdf — versions 3.03-17, 3.04-4, 3.04-13
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0207 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2010-0207?: CVE-2010-0207 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-10-30.
How severe is CVE-2010-0207?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.