CVE-2018-11797

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

4.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 89.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2018-10-05 20:00Z7 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 16:33Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-06-05

Assigning CNA

apache

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-674Uncontrolled RecursionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

751168bfe82cefb85eceacd7871792a830eec723bd8696bb910d7e7e589b95ec

• lists.apache.org[announce] 20181006 [UPDATE][CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parserhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[announce] 20181005 [CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parserhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20181016 [SECURITY] [DLA 1547-1] libpdfbox-java security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-9e91afa2behttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-6fa01d12b4https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• lists.apache.org[pdfbox-dev] 20210518 CVE'shttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST