CVE record · CVE-2026-116671

Infinite loop in Xpdf due to missing validation in JPEG 2000 decoder

CVSS 2.1 LowEPSS 0.0011 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GandC) at 26 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Xpdf	Xpdf	affected 4.06 and earlier Version Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-116671
CNA: GandC
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20 · CWE-835
Tags: Xpdf
Denial of service
CWE-20
Published: 26 Oct 2026
Updated: 2 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
2.1	Low	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (GandC)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0011, the 1st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

26 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
26 Oct 2026, 21:18 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

www.xpdfreader.com/security-bug/CVE-2026-116671.html

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