CVE-2018-11797

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2018-10-05
CWE:
CWE-674
Bugzilla:
1637492: CVE-2018-11797 pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2018-11797 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 5 PDFBox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 pdfbox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 pdfbox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 pdfbox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 pdfbox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 pdfbox Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 pdfbox Under investigation

External References

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