CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7453

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-02-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

Infinite recursion in AcroForm::scanField in AcroForm.cc in xpdf 4.00 allows attackers to launch denial of service via a specific pdf file due to lack of loop checking, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.

Affected configurations

• xpdfreader xpdf 4.00

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References