Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11797
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-11797
Complete source record
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"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html",
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