A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a tiny file
CVE-2021-31811

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache PDFbox
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 June 2021

Summary

In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.23 and prior 2.0.x versions.

Affected Version(s)

Apache PDFBox Apache PDFBox < 2.0.24

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re3bd16f0cc8f1fbda46...
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re3bd16f0cc8f1fbda46...
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf937c2236e6c79cdb99...
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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 Chaoyuan Peng for reporting this issue
.