CVE-2021-27807

Summary

CVECVE-2021-27807
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-19 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionA carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-834

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Pdfbox All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Trade Finance Process Management 14.2.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Trade Finance Process Management 14.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Trade Finance Process Management 14.5.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Treasury Management 14.5 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Virtual Account Management 14.2.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Virtual Account Management 14.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Virtual Account Management 14.5.0 All All All
Operating System Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Session Report Manager All All All All
Application Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking 14.5.0 All All All
Application Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking All All All All
Application Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting 11.1.2.4 All All All
Application Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting 11.2.6.0 All All All
Application Oracle Hyperion Infrastructure Technology All All All All
Application Oracle Outside In Technology 8.5.5 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 19.12 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 20.12 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier All All All All
Application Oracle Retail Customer Management And Segmentation Foundation 19.0 All All All
Application Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service 16.0.6 All All All
Application Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service 17.0.4 All All All
Application Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service 18.0.3 All All All
Application Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service 19.0.2 All All All
Application Oracle Retail Xstore Point Of Service 20.0.1 All All All
Application Oracle Webcenter Sites 12.2.1.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Webcenter Sites 12.2.1.4.0 All All All

References

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[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Pony Mail! CONFIRM lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[james-notifications] 20210501 [GitHub] [james-project] chibenwa opened a new pull request #414: [UPGRADE] Adopt Apache Tika 1.26 lists.apache.org
[pdfbox-dev] 20210518 CVE's lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[announce] 20210320 CVE-2021-27807: Apache PDFBox: a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file lists.apache.org
[ofbiz-notifications] 20210321 [jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-12205) Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 lists.apache.org
oss-security - CVE-2021-27807: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file MLIST www.openwall.com
[ofbiz-notifications] 20210321 [jira] [Closed] (OFBIZ-12205) Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[pdfbox-dev] 20210322 OSS-Fuzz integration lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 N/A www.oracle.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[ofbiz-commits] 20210321 [ofbiz-framework] branch release17.12 updated: Fixed: Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 (OFBIZ-12205) lists.apache.org
[ofbiz-notifications] 20210405 [jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-12205) Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 lists.apache.org
[ofbiz-commits] 20210321 [ofbiz-framework] branch trunk updated: Fixed: Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 (OFBIZ-12205) lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[pdfbox-users] 20210320 CVE-2021-27807: Apache PDFBox: a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file lists.apache.org
[ofbiz-notifications] 20210321 [jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-12205) Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: pdfbox-2.0.23-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[ofbiz-commits] 20210321 [ofbiz-framework] branch release18.12 updated: Fixed: Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 (OFBIZ-12205) lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[ofbiz-notifications] 20210321 [jira] [Updated] (OFBIZ-12205) Upgrade Apache PDFBox to 2.0.23 because of CVE-2021-27807 and CVE-2021-27906 lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Apache PDFBox would like to thank Fabian Meumertzheim for reporting this issue

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180447 Debian Security Update for libpdfbox2-java (CVE-2021-27807)
  • 281070 Fedora Security Update for pdfbox (FEDORA-2021-dc83ae690a)
  • 281071 Fedora Security Update for pdfbox (FEDORA-2021-8b17a2725e)
  • 281439 Fedora Security Update for pdfbox (FEDORA-2021-dc83ae690a)
  • 281440 Fedora Security Update for pdfbox (FEDORA-2021-8b17a2725e)
  • 281441 Fedora Security Update for pdfbox (FEDORA-2021-93469e0030)
  • 980345 Java (maven) Security Update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-2h3j-m7gr-25xj)
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