What is CVE-2017-7515?

CVE-2017-7515 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-7515?

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

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2017-7515

poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.

Published 2017-06-06 · 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: 0.011 (65.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 65.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler
Red Hat, Inc. Poppler — versions through 0.55.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7515?: CVE-2017-7515 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-7515?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.