CVE-2018-8036

pdfbox: Infinite loop in AFMParser.java allows for out of memory erros via crafted PDF

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

En Apache PDFBox, desde la versión 1.8.0 hasta la 1.8.14 y desde la 2.0.0RC1 hasta la 2.0.10, un archivo especialmente manipulado (o no válido) que puede desencadenar un bucle infinito que conduce a una excepción de agotamiento de memoria en Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.

Red Hat Fuse, based on Apache ServiceMix, provides a small-footprint, flexible, open source enterprise service bus and integration platform. This release of Red Hat Fuse 7.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Fuse 7.0, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References. Issues addressed include code execution, cross site scripting, denial of service, path sanitization, and traversal vulnerabilities.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-03-09 CVE Reserved
2018-07-03 CVE Published
2024-09-16 CVE Updated
2025-04-18 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html	X_refsource_misc

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8036	2018-09-11
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597490	2018-09-11

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Pdfbox Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox"				> 1.8.0 <= 1.8.14 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox" and version " > 1.8.0 <= 1.8.14"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Pdfbox Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox"				>= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.10 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox" and version " >= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.10"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Pdfbox Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox"				2.0.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox" and version "2.0.0"		rc1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Pdfbox Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox"				2.0.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox" and version "2.0.0"		rc2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Pdfbox Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox"				2.0.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Pdfbox" and version "2.0.0"		rc3		Affected