CVE-2021-27906

CWE-789CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.6%
top 29.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
20
Oracle Hyperion Infrastructure TechnologyApache Software Foundation Apache PdfboxApache Pdfbox+17 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 19
Latest updateOct 15

Description

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

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 Packages21 packages

▶Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox2.0.0 — 2.0.23
▶NVDapache/pdfbox2.0.0 — 2.0.22
▶CVEListV5apache_software_foundation/apache_pdfboxApache PDFBox — 2.0.22
▶Debianlibpdfbox2-java< 2.0.23-1+3

Also affects: Fedora 32, 33, 34

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Apache PDFBox↗2021-05-13
▶
GHSA
Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Apache PDFBox↗2021-05-13
▶
CVEList
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file↗2021-03-19
▶
OSV
CVE-2021-27906: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file↗2021-03-19
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Risk Matrix: Reports (Apache PDFBox) — CVE-2021-27906↗2021-10-15
▶
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Construction and Engineering Risk Matrix: Core (Apache PDFbox) — CVE-2021-27906↗2021-07-15
▶
Red Hat
pdfbox: OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a crafted PDF file↗2021-03-19
▶
Debian
CVE-2021-27906: libpdfbox-java - A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading ...↗2021
▶
Apache
Apache tika: CVE-2021-27906↗
▶