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CVE-2018-8036

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8036 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache PDFBox versions 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10. A specially crafted PDF file can cause an infinite loop in the AFMParser, leading to an out-of-memory exception. Rated 6.5 Medium (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), this vulnerability requires user interaction (opening the malicious file) and can result in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
> 1.8.0, <= 1.8.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, <= 2.0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0483 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxFixed in: 1.8.15
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxFixed in: 2.0.11
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7Fixed in: pdfbox
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6Fixed in: pdfbox
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5Fixed in: nutch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvggmedium

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2018-8036Moderate

pdfbox: Infinite loop in AFMParser.java allows for out of memory erros via crafted PDF

Jul 1, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2669
Third Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html