{"cve":"CVE-2018-8036","nvd":{"published":"2018-07-03T20:29:00.247","modified":"2026-06-17T02:04:08.763","status":"Modified","description":"In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-835"],"references":["https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669","https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E","https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E","https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/","https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/"],"products":["apache:pdfbox"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:51:47.459859389+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2018-8036","score":0.03992,"percentile":0.90517,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg","summary":"Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox","modified":"2024-02-20T05:34:40.059516Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox","ranges":[">=1.8.0 <1.8.15"],"fixed":["1.8.15"]},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox","ranges":[">=2.0.0RC1 <2.0.11"],"fixed":["2.0.11"]}]}],"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."]}