GHSA-mcgj-mgj8-8cr3

GHSA-mcgj-mgj8-8cr3 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.800000190734863 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

7.800000190734863

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-mcgj-mgj8-8cr3

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-mcgj-mgj8-8cr3/fixes/registry"

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