CVE-2017-18186

qpdf: infinite loop due to looping xref tables in QPDF.cc

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 24, 2017

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way QPDF parsed PDF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to cause QPDF to enter an infinite loop by tricking it into processing crafted QPDF files.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption