CVE-2018-8036 (GCVE-0-2018-8036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-03 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:28
VLAI
Summary
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • DoS (OOM) Vulnerability
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 936 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.14
Affected: 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10
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Date Public
2018-06-29 00:00
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