CVE-2018-11797
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:1.8.16-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:1.8.16-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:1.8.16-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:1.8.16-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:1.8.16-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox | >=1.8.0,<1.8.16 | 1.8.16 |
| Maven | org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox | >=2.0.0,<2.0.12 | 2.0.12 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11797.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11797
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.