CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2175

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• apache pdfbox 1.8.0 • apache pdfbox 1.8.1 • apache pdfbox 1.8.2 • apache pdfbox 1.8.3 • apache pdfbox 1.8.4 • apache pdfbox 1.8.5 • apache pdfbox 1.8.6 • apache pdfbox 1.8.7 • apache pdfbox 1.8.8 • apache pdfbox 1.8.9 • apache pdfbox 1.8.10 • apache pdfbox 1.8.11 • apache pdfbox 2.0 • debian debian linux 8.0

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