CVE-2017-12595
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.8%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-12595
To remediate CVE-2017-12595, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.0.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.0.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-12595 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 7.0.0-r0
- from 0, < 7.0.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |