CVE-2021-27807

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.99% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

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33 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

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

v3.15.5mediumCVSS: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-834USprimaryCWE-834US

affected products (33)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox≤ Apache PDFBox ≤2.0.22enisa_euvdEU
apache pdfbox2.0.0 → 2.0.22nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 32nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 33nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 34nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking trade finance process management= 14.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_trade_finance_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking trade finance process management= 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_trade_finance_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking trade finance process management= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_trade_finance_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking treasury management= 14.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_treasury_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking virtual account management= 14.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_virtual_account_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking virtual account management= 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_virtual_account_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking virtual account management= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_virtual_account_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle communications messaging server= 8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:oracle:communications_messaging_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle communications session report manager8.0.0 → 8.2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_session_report_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle flexcube universal banking14.0.0 → 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:flexcube_universal_banking:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle flexcube universal banking= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:flexcube_universal_banking:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle hyperion financial reporting= 11.1.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:hyperion_financial_reporting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle hyperion financial reporting= 11.2.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:hyperion_financial_reporting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle hyperion infrastructure technology< 11.2.8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:hyperion_infrastructure_technology:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle outside in technology= 8.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:outside_in_technology:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-2h3j-m7gr-25xjExcessive Iteration Denial of Service in Apache PDFBox2021-06-16ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-03-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (79)

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