Abhijit Rajwade created TIKA-2686: ------------------------------------- Summary: pdfbox fontbox 2.0.8 has security vulnerability CVE-2018-8036 and should be upgraded to 2.0.11 Key: TIKA-2686 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2686 Project: Tika Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 1.18, 1.17 Reporter: Abhijit Rajwade
Sonatype Nexus scan on Apach Tika 1.18 reports CVE-2018-8036 on pdfbox fontbox version 2.0.8 used by Tika 1.17 Details of the lssue from Sonatype Nexus auditor are as follows. Issue [CVE-2018-8036|http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-8036] Source National Vulnerability Database Severity Sonatype CVSS 3.0: 7.5 Weakness Sonatype CWE: [400|https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html] Description from CVE: 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. Categories Data Root Cause fontbox-2.0.8.jar : [2.0.0, 2.0.11) Advisories Third Party: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597490] Project: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4251 Sonatype recommendation is to update pdfbox fontbox to non vulnerable version 2.0.11 Can you please update pdfbox fontbox version used by Apache Tika? --- Abhijit Rajwade -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)