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CVE-2018-11797

5.5 mediumEPSS 3.5%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox 1.8.16, 2.0.12.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfgMavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>=1.8.0 <1.8.161.8.16
GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfgMavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>=2.0.0 <2.0.122.0.12

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