CVE-2018-8036
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.59%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-8036
To remediate CVE-2018-8036, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libpdfbox2-java—upgrade to 2.0.11-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1:1.8.15-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.15 or later
Is CVE-2018-8036 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.0.11-1
- from 0, < 1:1.8.15-1
- >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.15
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |