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CVE-2018-11797
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-10-05 · updated 2026-06-17
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.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox: from 1.8.0 through 1.8.15; from 2.0.1 through 2.0.11; 2.0-rc1, 2.0-rc2, 2.0-rc3, 2.0.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
- Oracle Corporation Retail Xstore Point of Service: 17.0
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
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