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CVE-2018-8036
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to…
Medium6.5EPSS 4.0%
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Description
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- DoS (OOM) Vulnerability
- CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-835 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache PDFBox
- affected 1.8.0 to 1.8.14
- affected 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxGHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- RHSA-2018:2669 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [users] 20180629 [CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser (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
- [syncope-dev] 20200423 Re: Time to cut 2.1.6 / 2.0.15? (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-j2xq-pfff-mvgg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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