THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-11797
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-11797

Pdfbox vulnerability

CVSS
5.5
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Pdfbox
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
2018-10-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-11797

  • Confirm whether Apache Pdfbox is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-11797.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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