CVE-2018-8036

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Published 2022-05-13 · Modified 2024-02-20
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8036

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8036.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.8.15-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.8.15-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.8.15-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.8.15-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.8.15-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>=1.8.0,<1.8.151.8.15
java Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>=2.0.0RC1,<2.0.112.0.11

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.