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    CVE-2018-11797

    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.

    Published:Oct 5, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Oct 5, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.01245
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Pdfbox
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Retail Xstore Point Of Service
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Fuse

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-33929 (CVSS 4.3) — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Apache PDFBox …
    CVE-2026-23907 (CVSS 5.3) — This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.35, from 3.0.0 …
    CVE-2021-31811 (CVSS 5.5) — In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. Th…
    CVE-2021-31812 (CVSS 5.5) — In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue…
    CVE-2021-27807 (CVSS 5.5) — A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PD…
    CVE-2021-27906 (CVSS 5.5) — A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects A…
    CVE-2019-0228 (CVSS 9.8) — Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to …
    CVE-2018-8036 (CVSS 6.5) — 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 i…
    CVE-2016-2175 (CVSS 7.8) — Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows co…

    References

    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High