A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file
CVE-2021-27807

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache PDFbox
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 March 2021

Summary

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

Affected Version(s)

Apache PDFBox Apache PDFBox <= 2.0.22

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r818058ff1e4b9f6bef4...
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r818058ff1e4b9f6bef4...
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/9
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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

Credit

Apache PDFBox would like to thank Fabian Meumertzheim for reporting this issue
.