CVE-2016-2175

pdfbox: XML External Entity vulnerability

Published Jun 1, 2016 CVSS 3.0 · 7.8 High EPSS 3.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-505-1 libpdfbox-java security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3606-1 libpdfbox security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0498 Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98 High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
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