ghsa-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
Vulnerability from github
Published
2018-10-17 18:22
Modified
2022-04-27 14:23
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation
Details

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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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "1.8.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "1.8.16",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "2.0.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.0.12",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2018-11797",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-400",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2020-06-16T21:38:16Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2018-10-05T20:29:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg",
   modified: "2022-04-27T14:23:39Z",
   published: "2018-10-17T18:22:29Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation",
}


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