Apache PDFBox 1.8.15 / 2.0.11 Denial Of Service

2018.10.09
Credit: Shawn Rasheed
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: CVE-2018-11797
CWE: CWE-20


CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: Partial

[CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache PDFBox <= 1.8.15 Apache PDFBox <= 2.0.11 Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well Description: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.16 respectively 2.0.12 Credit: This issue was discovered by Shawn Rasheed and Jens Dietrich Website: https://pdfbox.apache.org/ Download: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.12/RELEASE-NOTES.txt https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.16/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

References:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.12/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.16/RELEASE-NOTES.txt


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