What is CVE-2017-18183?

CVE-2017-18183 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qpdf Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-13.

How severe is CVE-2017-18183?

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

Vulnerability in Qpdf Project

CVE-2017-18183

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qpdf_project Qpdf
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18183?: CVE-2017-18183 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qpdf Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-02-13.
How severe is CVE-2017-18183?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.