Vulnerability CVE-2018-11797

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-11797 (CCN-150898)

Assigned:

2018-10-05

Published:

2018-10-05

Updated:

2021-05-21

Summary:

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.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.8 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

4.6 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-noinfo

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-11797

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
apache-cve201811797-dos(150898)

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[announce] 20181006 [UPDATE][CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[announce] 20181005 [CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[pdfbox-dev] 20210518 CVE's

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20181016 [SECURITY] [DLA 1547-1] libpdfbox-java security update

Source: FEDORA
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2019-6fa01d12b4

Source: FEDORA
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2019-9e91afa2be

Source: CCN
Type: Apache PDFBox Web site
Apache PDFBox

Source: CCN
Type: oss-sec Mailing List, Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:10:49 +0200
[CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Security Bulletin 734711 (FileNet Content Manager)
IBM FileNet Content Manager and IBM Enterprise Content Management Text Search security vulnerability in Apache PDFBox

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Security Bulletin 740165 (Emptoris Contract Management)
Apache PDFBox affects IBM Emptoris Contract Management

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Security Bulletin 6193425 (Cognos Analytics)
IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilties

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Security Bulletin 6443675 (Log Analysis)
Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox affect Apache Solr shipped IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis Analysis (CVE-2018-11797)

Source: CCN
Type: Oracle CPUApr2020
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2020

Source: N/A
Type: Patch, Third Party Advisory
N/A

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 1.8.0 and <= 1.8.15)

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 2.0.1 and <= 2.0.11)

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3:

cpe:/a:oracle:retail_xstore_point_of_service:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

AND

cpe:/a:ibm:filenet_content_manager:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:filenet_content_manager:5.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:filenet_content_manager:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:emptoris_contract_management:10.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:oracle:retail_xstore_point_of_service:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:201811797	V	CVE-2018-11797	2022-08-07
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3365	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:94995	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2954	P	iscsiuio-0.7.8.6-150400.37.6 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2944	P	gssproxy-0.8.2-3.9.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1329	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 4 for SLE 15 SP3) (Important)	2022-04-25
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1797	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2022-04-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1375	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2022-01-26
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:877	P	Security update for bind (Moderate)	2022-01-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:111946	P	apache-pdfbox-2.0.23-1.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-01-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10192	P	Security update for xorg-x11-server (Important)	2021-12-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:11151	P	Security update for singularity (Moderate)	2021-12-04
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64621	P	Security update for ruby2.5 (Important)	2021-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10349	P	Security update for glibc (Moderate)	2021-10-12
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:105512	P	apache-pdfbox-2.0.23-1.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-10-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10155	P	Security update for ffmpeg (Important)	2021-09-23
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71208	P	hplip-devel-3.18.6-5.7.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-09-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71321	P	libtag1-1.11.1-2.50 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-09-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10330	P	Security update for openssl-1_1 (Important)	2021-08-24
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10130	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)	2021-08-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10315	P	Security update for c-ares (Important)	2021-08-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47398	P	libproxy1-0.4.13-16.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47951	P	apache2-mod_jk-1.2.40-7.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47413	P	libsrtp1-1.5.2-2.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47859	P	ppc64-diag-2.7.4-1.18 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48313	P	stunnel-5.00-4.3.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47399	P	libpulse-mainloop-glib0-32bit-5.0-4.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47727	P	libjbig2-2.0-12.13 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48099	P	libcairo-gobject2-1.15.2-25.3.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47534	P	xlockmore-5.43-5.30 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2233	P	davfs2-1.5.4-3.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2260	P	libslirp-devel-4.3.1-1.51 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2293	P	uuidd-2.36.2-2.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2248	P	libct4-1.1.36-3.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2273	P	ovmf-202008-8.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2238	P	freeradius-server-3.0.21-3.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2229	P	apache2-mod_nss-1.0.17-3.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2264	P	libvirglrenderer0-0.6.0-4.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1901	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:100825	P	ecryptfs-utils-111-2.31 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62990	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:101248	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72709	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64534	P	Security update for wireshark (Important)	2021-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:16392	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-3.5.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48397	P	cvs-1.12.12-181.54 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48891	P	NetworkManager-1.0.12-13.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48746	P	libssh4-0.6.3-8.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48524	P	libmspack0-0.4-14.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48626	P	strongswan-5.1.3-22.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48765	P	bogofilter-1.2.4-5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48555	P	libsystemd0-228-117.12 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48747	P	libtag1-32bit-1.9.1-1.265 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48459	P	libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-6.8.8.1-33.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66792	P	Security update for libX11 (Moderate)	2021-05-26
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10055	P	Security update for fwupdate (Important)	2021-04-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10424	P	Security update for libzypp, zypper (Moderate)	2021-03-25
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10222	P	Security update for openssl-1_0_0 (Moderate)	2021-03-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10219	P	Security update for openssl-1_1 (Moderate)	2021-03-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10200	P	Security update for wpa_supplicant (Important)	2021-02-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10197	P	Security update for subversion (Important)	2021-02-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:11173	P	Security update for segv_handler (Moderate)	2021-02-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10268	P	Security update for wavpack (Moderate)	2021-01-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67968	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2021-01-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10206	P	Security update for nodejs10 (Moderate)	2021-01-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10036	P	Security update for java-1_8_0-ibm (Moderate)	2020-12-23
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66700	P	Security update for clamav-database (Important)	2020-12-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:89965	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-5.6.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2306	P	apache-commons-beanutils-1.9.2-2.46 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62886	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-5.6.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:16687	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-3.5.4 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:94112	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72605	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-5.6.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:103620	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-5.6.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62933	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2304	P	tomcat-9.0.5-1.34 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72652	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:107491	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2299	P	apache-commons-daemon-1.0.15-2.51 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1844	P	apache-pdfbox-1.8.16-1.68 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49491	P	typelib-1_0-JavaScriptCore-4_0 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49978	P	skopeo on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17919	P	Security update for xerces-c (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17596	P	Security update for bind (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:18591	P	Security update for ghostscript (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:9906	P	libpoppler-glib8 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17720	P	Security update for libgcrypt (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17469	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10500	P	libgpgme-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49816	P	apache-pdfbox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10021	P	xorg-x11 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49882	P	osc on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10449	P	graphite2-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49716	P	spice-vdagent on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73365	P	MozillaFirefox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49334	P	squashfs on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:18617	P	Security update for apache-pdfbox (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49815	P	apache-commons-compress on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17511	P	Security update for pidgin (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17684	P	Security update for gdk-pixbuf (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17931	P	Security update for ImageMagick (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51389	P	Security update for apache-pdfbox (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73483	P	apache-pdfbox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:9974	P	python-imaging on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17862	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49762	P	subversion-bash-completion on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10857	P	vte2-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10513	P	libjson-c-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70148	P	apache-pdfbox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:9898	P	libopenssl-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49238	P	libsqlite3-0 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49947	P	gnuplot on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:67868	P	fetchmailconf on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49725	P	ant on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17477	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50051	P	apache2-mod_wsgi-python3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17653	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10491	P	libdmx-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:10879	P	apache-pdfbox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51327	P	Security update for libjpeg-turbo (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:9928	P	libtiff5 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17830	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:17953	P	Security update for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49770	P	apache-pdfbox on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49094	P	freetype2-devel on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:70043	P	file-roller on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018117970000000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201811797000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:2018117970000000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201811797000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018117970000000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201811797000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018117970000000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2018-10-05
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201811797000	V	CVE-2018-11797 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2018-10-05

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