CVE-2018-11797

MEDIUM

Apache PDFBox 1.8.0-1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1-2.0.11 - Denial of Service via Page Tree Parsing

Title source: llm

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.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0162

EPSS Percentile 82.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published

Products (7)

apache/pdfbox 2.0 rc1 (3 CPE variants)

apache/pdfbox 2.0.0

apache/pdfbox 1.8.0 - 1.8.15

fedoraproject/fedora 29

fedoraproject/fedora 30

oracle/retail_xstore_point_of_service 17.0

org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox 1.8.0 - 1.8.16Maven

Published Oct 05, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026