CVE-2021-31812 - Excessive Iteration

Severity

55%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

60%

In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.23 and prior 2.0.x versions.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2021-06-12 10:15:00

Last updated 3 years ago

2021-12-01 21:47:00

Affected Software

Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1

8.1

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra2ab0ce69ce8aaff0773b8c1036438387ce004c2afc6f066626e205e%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E

[pdfbox-users] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

[announce] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

[oss-security] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

[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)

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

[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)

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Closed] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

[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/ra2ab0ce69ce8aaff0773b8c1036438387ce004c2afc6f066626e205e%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

[pdfbox-users] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

[announce] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20210612 CVE-2021-31812: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

[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)

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[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)

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[ofbiz-notifications] 20210613 [jira] [Closed] (OFBIZ-12256) Update PDFBox to 2.0.24 because of CVE-2021-31811 & CVE-2021-31812

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

[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)

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory

FEDORA-2021-3d94c14be4

FEDORA-2021-4a9ead5fff

FEDORA-2021-3d94c14be4

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2021-4a9ead5fff

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

Third Party Advisory

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