What is CVE-2017-9208?

CVE-2017-9208 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qpdf Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-9208?

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

Is CVE-2017-9208 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Qpdf Project

CVE-2017-9208

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

EPSS: 0.013 (68.0th 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 — versions 6.0.0
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9208?: CVE-2017-9208 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qpdf Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-9208?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-9208 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.