What is CVE-2017-18267?

CVE-2017-18267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-05-10.

How severe is CVE-2017-18267?

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

Is CVE-2017-18267 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2017-18267

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.

Published 2018-05-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Debian Linux — versions 8.0
Red Hat Ansible Tower — versions 3.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3647-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18267?: CVE-2017-18267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-05-10.
How severe is CVE-2017-18267?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-18267 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.