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2 vulnerabilities found for Apache PDFBox Examples by Apache Software Foundation

CVE-2026-23907 (GCVE-0-2026-23907)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-03-10 09:43 – Updated: 2026-03-10 17:51
VLAI?
Title
Apache PDFBox Examples: Path Traversal in PDFBox ExtractEmbeddedFiles Example Code
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Examples Affected: 2.0.24 , ≤ 2.0.35 (semver)
Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.6 (semver)
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Credits
Joakim Bülow (Neo4j Security Team)
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CVE-2026-23907 (GCVE-0-2026-23907)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-10 09:43 – Updated: 2026-03-10 17:51
VLAI?
Title
Apache PDFBox Examples: Path Traversal in PDFBox ExtractEmbeddedFiles Example Code
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Examples Affected: 2.0.24 , ≤ 2.0.35 (semver)
Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.6 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Joakim Bülow (Neo4j Security Team)
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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