CVE-2018-17201

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Certain input files could make the code hang when Apache Sanselan 0.97-incubator was used to parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack. Note that Apache Sanselan (incubating) was renamed to Apache Commons Imaging.

Affected products

Apache Commons Imaging: 0.97

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37861963aa6d2694c8947d464c99614d3e1a9db6c1a2a8b7b5840a%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37861963aa6d2694c8947d464c99614d3e1a9db6c1a2a8b7b5840a%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E

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