CVE-2017-14617 describes a floating point exception vulnerability in Poppler 0.59.0, specifically within the ImageStream class in Stream.cc, which could be triggered by processing a specially crafted malicious PDF file. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction and local access to exploit. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely targeted.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.59.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.59.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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