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CVE-2017-7511

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7511 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in poppler versions 0.17.3 and later, specifically affecting the pdfunite utility. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered by processing specially crafted PDF documents, leading to a denial of service (availability impact) on the affected system. Exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but no privileges (PR:N). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.17.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.17.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.18.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.18.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.18.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 5,765 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: poppler

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7511Low

poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents

May 23, 2017

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201801-17