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.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:7.0.b1:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2017-08-27 15:29

Updated : 2025-04-20 01:37

NVD link : CVE-2017-12595

Mitre link : CVE-2017-12595

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-12595

JSON object : View

Products Affected

qpdf_project

qpdf

CWE

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

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