CVE-2018-11797 Affecting libpdfbox2-java package, versions <2.0.12-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-263214
  • published 5 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 5 Oct 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 libpdfbox2-java to version 2.0.12-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpdfbox2-java package and not the libpdfbox2-java package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High