CVE-2018-11797

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache PDFbox
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 October 2018

Summary

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 Version(s)

Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15

Apache PDFBox 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20...
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c...
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg0...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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