CVE-2017-11624

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A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

Published: 2017-07-25 Last update: 2026-05-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2017-11624 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.21%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.13% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2017-11624

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-11624

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.08% 1.21% +1.13%
2 2026-03-27 0.34% 0.08% -0.25%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.34% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2017-11624

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2017-11624

OS Trackers for CVE-2017-11624

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2017-11624: 1 source package rows (qpdf); 7 state rows across 7 repos (3.17-community, 3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 7, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-11624
debian low CVE-2017-11624 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (qpdf), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11624
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11624
suse high CVE-2017-11624 severity important: SUSE including 30 source package names (cups-filters-1.0.58-15.2.1, cups-filters-1.0.58-19.2.3, …), 162 product×package rows across 49 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 4, … (49 product lines)): Fixed 135, Known Not Affected 27. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11624/
ubuntu negligible CVE-2017-11624 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (qpdf), 6 status rows across 6 suites (artful, bionic, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): released 3, not-affected 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11624

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2017-11624

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
qpdf_project qpdf 6.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2017-11624

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