CVE-2018-8036
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.59%Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/libpdfbox2-javafrom 0, < 2.0.11-1
- Debian/libpdfbox-javafrom 0, < 1:1.8.15-1
- Maven/org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.15
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8036
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8036
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540@%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
- 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