CVE-2018-11797

medium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-05

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H