CVE-2018-11797

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption11 documents9 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.18%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Apache PdfboxApache Software Foundation Apache PdfboxFedoraproject Fedora+1 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateApr 15

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox1.8.0 — 1.8.16+1
▶NVDapache/pdfbox1.8.0 — 1.8.15+3
▶CVEListV5apache_software_foundation/apache_pdfbox1.8.0 to 1.8.15, 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11+1
▶Debianlibpdfbox-java< 1:1.8.16-1+3
▶Debianlibpdfbox2-java< 2.0.12-1+3

Also affects: Fedora 29, 30

Patches

Patch: www.oracle.com ↗Patch: www.oracle.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation↗2018-10-17
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GHSA
In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation↗2018-10-17
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OSV
CVE-2018-11797: In Apache PDFBox 1↗2018-10-05
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CVEList
CVE-2018-11797: In Apache PDFBox 1↗2018-10-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Oracle
Oracle Oracle Retail Applications Risk Matrix: Dataloader (Apache pdfbox) — CVE-2018-11797↗2020-04-15
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Red Hat
pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service↗2018-10-05
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Debian
CVE-2018-11797: libpdfbox-java - In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF...↗2018
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Apache
Apache tika: CVE-2018-11797↗
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-11797 pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service [fedora-all]↗2018-10-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-11797 pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service↗2018-10-09
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CVE-2018-11797 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.5) | In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 an | cvebase.io