Security advisory

{
  "id": "14cad8eb373d52f4d00f27e652d01cad7ec64cc2135e33ea936a0306ea32fb85",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8036",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-8036",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-8036",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-8036",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-8036",
        "GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/pdfbox",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a48b3adb3386a3e9d9c93f7341aeed113cc95333"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "9b2e8e73b853d38490de98041627a3f9b075eb96"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a625e6e1aa6df28a1b345501eefcc5be62a463d2"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "8890ccbf0b3a233578b952748ce090f54c53fea7"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "1400def5c88140cc9be1245b9b4774a9d558d73c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.8.14"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0-rc1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.0-rc1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0-rc2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.0-rc2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0-rc3"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.0-rc3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.0.0-rc1",
            "2.0.0-rc2",
            "2.0.0-rc3",
            "2.0.0-RC3",
            "2.0.10",
            "1.8.14"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-8036.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:29.476548017Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-8036",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 432333,
  "published_at": "2018-07-03T20:29:00.247+00:00"
}