CVE-2018-11797: Apache Pdfbox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Apache Pdfbox: from 1.8.0, up to and including 1.8.15; from 2.0.1, up to and including 2.0.11; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service: version 17.0 only

Published 2018-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.