CVE-2018-1338

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

1.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 79.6% 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:3.0/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

2018-04-25 21:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-17 00:07Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-12-07

Assigning CNA

apache

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-835Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

17a885b37d6a0170161df316cb3d79b507f9bad92d033eb513c08b712ac7aa78

• access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:2669https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• lists.apache.org[dev] 20180425 [CVE-2018-1338] DoS (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability in Apache Tika's BPGParserhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST