Skip to content

Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Apache PDFBox

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.23

Patched versions

2.0.23

Description

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

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 19, 2021
Reviewed Mar 22, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-27906

GHSA ID

GHSA-6vqp-h455-42mr

Source code

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.