CVE-2018-8036

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.046 · 92 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.62% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

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

6.5

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

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/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-835USprimaryCWE-835US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Fedora Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:-
IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:7.5
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox≤ 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox≤ 1.8.0 to 1.8.14enisa_euvdEU
apache pdfbox≤ 1.8.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox1.8.0 → 1.8.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox2.0.0 → 2.0.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox1.8.0 → 1.8.15osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox
Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox2.0.0RC1 → 2.0.11osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-0809IBM QRadar SIEM: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-03-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM QRadar SIEM ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Informationen falsch darzustellen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen oder unbekannte Auswirkungen zu verursachen.
GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvggLoop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-03modified 2026-06-17

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references (21)

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