CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-27807

Excessive Iteration

Published: Mar 19, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

Weakness

The product performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pdfbox Apache 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.22 (including)
Red Hat Fuse 7.9 RedHat pdfbox *
Red Hat Integration RedHat pdfbox *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu bionic *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu groovy *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu hirsute *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu impish *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu kinetic *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu lunar *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu mantic *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu trusty *
Libpdfbox-java Ubuntu xenial *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu bionic *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu focal *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu groovy *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu hirsute *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu impish *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu kinetic *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu lunar *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu mantic *
Libpdfbox2-java Ubuntu trusty *

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