Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-12595
The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.01
EPSS Ranking 75.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-12595
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cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:7.0.b1