GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-jjwr-xmw6-gf78 Apache PDFBox has Path Traversal through PDComplexFileSpecification.getFilename() function

MEDIUM Published 2026-03-10 Modified 2026-03-11 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-23907
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox-examples
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22
Reviewed
2026-03-11

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox-examples: >= 2.0.24, < 3.0.7 → fixed in 3.0.7

Description

This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.35, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. The ExtractEmbeddedFiles example contains a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) because the filename that is obtained from PDComplexFileSpecification.getFilename() is appended to the extraction path. Users who have copied this example into their production code should review it to ensure that the extraction path is acceptable. The example has been changed accordingly, now the initial path and the extraction paths are converted into canonical paths and it is verified that extraction path contains the initial path. The documentation has also been adjusted.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-23907 This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.35, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

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