{"cve":"CVE-2018-11797","nvd":{"published":"2018-10-05T20:29:00.250","modified":"2026-06-17T01:36:37.027","status":"Modified","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E","https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E","https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E","https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html","https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/"],"products":["apache:pdfbox","fedoraproject:fedora","oracle:retail_xstore_point_of_service"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:53:14.491561039+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2018-11797","score":0.03505,"percentile":0.89183,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg","summary":"In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation","modified":"2024-02-16T08:14:19.885368Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox","ranges":[">=1.8.0 <1.8.16"],"fixed":["1.8.16"]},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox","ranges":[">=2.0.0 <2.0.12"],"fixed":["2.0.12"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}