CVE-2021-27906

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.033 · 89 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.34% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

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44 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception 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-789USCWE-789US

affected products (44)

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 corporate lending process management= 14.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking corporate lending process management= 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking corporate lending process management= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking supply chain finance= 14.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_supply_chain_finance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking supply chain finance= 14.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_supply_chain_finance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking supply chain finance= 14.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_supply_chain_finance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-6vqp-h455-42mrUncontrolled Memory Allocation in Apache PDFBox2021-05-13ghsa · osvUS
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

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

references (81)

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