CVE-2021-27807
Excessive Iteration Denial of Service in Apache PDFBox
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.49%
Description
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.
How to fix CVE-2021-27807
To remediate CVE-2021-27807, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libpdfbox2-java—upgrade to 2.0.23-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.0.23 or later
Is CVE-2021-27807 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.0.23-1
- >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.23
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |