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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-8036 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
While Fuse 6.3 and Fuse 7.0 ship vulnerable artifact via camel-pdfbox, however, the flawed code is not being used therefore no execution path leads to an exposure to this vulnerability, so both Fuse 6.3, 7 standalone are not affected. However, Fuse 7.0 on OpenShift ship vulnerable artifact via maven BOM, so setting Fuse 7.0 as affected for this reason only.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | RHSA-2018:2669 | 2018-09-11 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | nutch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | pdfbox | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | pdfbox | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | pdfbox | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 | pdfbox | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 | pdfbox | Not affected |
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