Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-11625

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-11625 describes a stack-consumption vulnerability in libqpdf, specifically affecting QPDF version 6.0.0, which could lead to a denial of service. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires local access and user interaction (e.g., opening a crafted file) to trigger an infinite loop within the QPDF::resolveObjectsInStream function, resulting in application unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qpdf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-11625Low

qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDF::resolveObjectsInStream function in QPDF.cc

Jul 25, 2017

References

github.com / qpdf/qpdf/issues/120
ExploitThird Party Advisory
somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp / 2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_26.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3638-1