Medium
Security advisory
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27807
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.
osv:CVE-2021-27807
Complete source record
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