GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-c9jj-3wvg-q65h Vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox

CRITICAL Published 2019-07-05 Modified 2021-06-15 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-0228
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox: >= 2.0.14, < 2.0.15 → fixed in 2.0.15

Description

Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-0228 Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References