CVE-2018-11797
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 1.6%libpdfbox-java - security update
Published: 10/17/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/libpdfbox2-javafrom 0, < 2.0.12-1
- Debian/libpdfbox-javafrom 0, < 1:1.8.16-1
- Debian/libpdfbox-javafrom 0, < 1:1.8.7+dfsg-1+deb8u2
- Maven/org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.16
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11797
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html