CVE-2017-9208

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Libqpdf.a en QPDF 6.0.0 permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (recursión infinita y consumo de pila) a través de un documento PDF especialmente diseñado, relacionado con las funciones releaseResolved, también conocido como qpdf-infiniteloop1.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-05-22 CVE Reserved
2017-05-23 CVE Published
2023-06-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf	2019-10-03

URL	Date	SRC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1	2019-10-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Qpdf Project Search vendor "Qpdf Project"		Qpdf Search vendor "Qpdf Project" for product "Qpdf"				6.0.0 Search vendor "Qpdf Project" for product "Qpdf" and version "6.0.0"		-		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				14.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.04"		lts		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				16.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "16.04"		lts		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				17.10 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "17.10"		-		Affected