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Vulnerability details: VCID-ypy1-hyrw-6fhm
Vulnerability ID VCID-ypy1-hyrw-6fhm
Aliases CVE-2018-11797
GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
Summary
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11797.json
epss 0.0162 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11797
epss 0.0162 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11797
epss 0.0162 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11797
epss 0.0162 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11797
cvssv3 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11797.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11797
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11797
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/commit/4fa98533358c106522cd1bfe4cd9be2532af852
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/commit/a6deb9d7ffec79986cac82345db724b343ca3e5
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/commit/f7dc8eed7df007c88421919932e2d4de44d2ae2
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
1637492 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1637492
910390 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910390
910391 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910391
CVE-2018-11797 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
RHSA-2020:3192 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3192
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11797.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8@%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.8224
EPSS Score 0.0162
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-10T18:06:29.048624+00:00 SUSE Severity Score Importer Import https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml 38.6.0