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SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422624

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an
 extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. (CVE-2018-11797)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422624

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11797

BID: 105672

cwe: CWE-400