{"id":"CVE-2018-17201","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-17201","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:49:17.677Z","title":"Certain input files could make the code hang when Apache Sanselan 0.97-incubator was used to parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack.","description":"Certain input files could make the code hang when Apache Sanselan 0.97-incubator was used to parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack. Note that Apache Sanselan (incubating) was renamed to Apache Commons Imaging.","published":"2019-05-06T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:45:32.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["apache/commons imaging"],"epss":{"score":0.01931,"percentile":0.79901,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.93%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37861963aa6d2694c8947d464c99614d3e1a9db6c1a2a8b7b5840a%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cd37861963aa6d2694c8947d464c99614d3e1a9db6c1a2a8b7b5840a%40%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17201","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}