CVE-2021-31812

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

3.05% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 86.4% 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

Low. 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

2021-06-12 09:45Z5 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-03 23:10Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2021-04-26

Assigning CNA

apache

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-834Excessive IterationClass
• CWE-835Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

abebff515b04cecd2891a78ea830a69c9237428c6d49f7bc882dd8fab52637b7

• lists.apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra2ab0ce69ce8aaff0773b8c1036438387ce004c2afc6f066626e205e%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3Ex_refsource_MISC
• lists.apache.org[announce] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the filehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf251f6c358087107f8c23473468b279d59d50a75db6b4768165c78d3%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the filehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/12/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfe26bcaba564deb505c32711ba68df7ec589797dcd96ff3389a8aaba%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Closed] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd4b6db6c3b8ab3c70f1c3bbd725a40920896453ffc2744ade6afd9fb%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-commits] 20210613 [ofbiz-framework] branch release17.12 updated: Fixed: Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812 (OFBIZ-12256)https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r143fd8445e0e778f4a85187bd79438630b96b8040e9401751fdb8aea%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-commits] 20210613 [ofbiz-framework] branch trunk updated: Fixed: Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812 (OFBIZ-12256)https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r179cc3b6822c167702ab35fe36093d5da4c99af44238c8a754c6860f%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2090789e4dcc2c87aacbd87d5f18e2d64dcb9f6eb7c47f5cf7d293cb%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r132e9dbbe0ebdc08b39583d8be0a575fdba573d60a42d940228bceff%40%3Cnotifications.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[ofbiz-commits] 20210613 [ofbiz-framework] branch release18.12 updated: Fixed: Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812 (OFBIZ-12256)https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re0cacd3fb337cdf8469853913ed2b4ddd8f8bfc52ff0ddbe61c1dfba%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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