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CVE-2018-11797
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation…
Medium5.5EPSS 3.5%
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Description
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- DoS vulnerability
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache PDFBox
- affected 1.8.0 to 1.8.15
- affected 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxGHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- [announce] 20181006 [UPDATE][CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [announce] 20181005 [CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181016 [SECURITY] [DLA 1547-1] libpdfbox-java security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-9e91afa2be (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-6fa01d12b4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [pdfbox-dev] 20210518 CVE's (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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