CVE-2018-11797

pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service

Published Oct 5, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS 3.5% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1547-1 libpdfbox-java security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0607 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
apache
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 4:33 PM
Reserved
Jun 5, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 5, 2018, 8:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:36 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 5, 2018, 12:00 AM