CVE-2017-18183 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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

Published: 2018-02-13

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-9318	An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3638-1	QPDF vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00338.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/8249a26d69f72b9cda584c14cc3f12769985e481
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/143
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18183
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18183

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Qpdf Project Qpdf

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-13T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.097Z

Reserved: 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-18183

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-13T19:29:00.307

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:30.067

Link: CVE-2017-18183

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-18183 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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