6.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2018-8036
Apache PDFBox AFMParser Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.

INFO

Published Date :

July 3, 2018, 8:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:01 a.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-8036 has a 13 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-8036 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Apache pdfbox
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2018-8036.

URL Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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CGCL-codes/LibHunter

None

Python Shell Batchfile

Updated: 2 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 14, 2024, 5:56 a.m. This repo has been linked 89 different CVEs too.
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LibHunter/LibHunter

None

Python Shell Batchfile

Updated: 5 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 5, 2024, 8:22 a.m. This repo has been linked 89 different CVEs too.
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moudemans/GFuzz

None

Makefile Shell C Java Python

Updated: 8 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 28, 2024, 8:41 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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mfatima1/CS182

None

Makefile Shell C Java Python

Updated: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 28, 2023, 8:09 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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qibowen-99/JQF_TEST

The final project for CS182

Makefile Java Shell C Python

Updated: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 28, 2023, 6:17 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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CGCL-codes/PHunter

None

Java

Updated: 6 months ago
7 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : May 27, 2023, 11:55 a.m. This repo has been linked 89 different CVEs too.
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Anonymous-Phunter/PHunter

None

Java

Updated: 1 year, 2 months ago
3 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Nov. 14, 2022, 2:30 a.m. This repo has been linked 89 different CVEs too.
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GCFuzzer/SP2023

None

Updated: 2 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 23, 2022, 11:38 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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olli22221/jqf

None

Makefile Shell C Java

Updated: 2 years, 9 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 28, 2022, 5:41 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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aoli-al/JQF-ei

None

Makefile Shell C Java Python Jupyter Notebook FLUX

Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 17, 2021, 3:42 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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sarahc7/jqf-gson

None

Makefile Shell C Java

Updated: 2 years, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 20, 2021, 5:31 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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jyi/JQF

None

Makefile Shell C Java HTML CSS XSLT R AspectJ

Updated: 1 year, 10 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 4, 2020, 6:15 a.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.
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rohanpadhye/JQF

JQF + Zest: Coverage-guided semantic fuzzing for Java.

fuzzing junit quickcheck property-based-testing coverage-guided-fuzzing afl

Shell Java Makefile C Python

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
653 stars 106 fork 106 watcher
Born at : Feb. 23, 2017, 1:27 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-8036 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-8036 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
    Removed Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
    Removed Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
    Removed Reference Apache Software Foundation https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540@%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 23, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540@%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-400 CWE-399 CWE-835
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 10, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 Third Party Advisory
    Removed CWE CWE-399
    Added CWE CWE-400
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 12, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 28, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E No Types Assigned https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-399
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (excluding) 1.8.0 up to (including) 1.8.14 *cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.0.0 up to (including) 2.0.10 *cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-8036 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-8036 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.66 }} 0.20%

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0.77421

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