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CVE-2018-11797 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E CVE
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E CVE
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E CVE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/ CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-noinfoInsufficient Information to Classify Weakness[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
apache pdfbox
>= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.15
>= 2.0.1, <= 2.0.11
2.0 rc1
2.0 rc2
2.0 rc3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
29
30

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
oracle retail xstore point of service
17.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:oracle:retail_xstore_point_of_service:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-11797
NVD Published Date:
Oct 5, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-11797 Details - Not Deferred