CVE-2018-8036

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

4.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 91.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

2018-07-03 20:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 18:28Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-03-09

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
• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4383a977ecb1567431451762ab589252100648cf483b8726cc1fa8c873feaa6a

• access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:2669https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• lists.apache.org[users] 20180629 [CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParserhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3Emailing-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[syncope-dev] 20200423 Re: Time to cut 2.1.6 / 2.0.15?https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST