CVE-2018-9918

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

EPSS

2%p76

Published

Apr 10, 2018 (Apr 10, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Vendors: qpdf project canonical
Products: qpdf, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-674
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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