CVE-2018-11797

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.50% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

20 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USCWE-400US

affected products (20)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox≤ 1.8.0 to 1.8.15enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox≤ 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation PDFBox1.8.0 → 1.8.15fstec_bduRU
Apache Software Foundation PDFBox2.0.0RC1 → 2.0.11fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 30fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 29fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 15.0fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 42.3fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 17.0fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat JBoss Fuse≤ 7fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 8fstec_bduRU
apache pdfbox1.8.0 → 1.8.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox2.0.1 → 2.0.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 29nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 30nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle retail xstore point of service= 17.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:retail_xstore_point_of_service:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox1.8.0 → 1.8.16osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox
Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox2.0.0 → 2.0.12osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfgIn Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation2018-10-17ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-10-05modified 2026-06-17

references (29)

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