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CVE-2018-7453

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• Xpdf: 4.00

References

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?p=814#p814
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?p=814#p814

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