FKIE_CVE-2016-2175

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-01 20:59 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201605.mbox/%3C83a03bcf-f86b-4688-37b5-615c080291d8%40apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538503/100/0/threaded
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90902
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad5fbc86c1d1821ae1b963e8561ab6d6a5f66b2848e84f5a31477f54%40%3Ccommits.tika.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201605.mbox/%3C83a03bcf-f86b-4688-37b5-615c080291d8%40apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538503/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90902
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad5fbc86c1d1821ae1b963e8561ab6d6a5f66b2848e84f5a31477f54%40%3Ccommits.tika.apache.org%3E
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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
apache pdfbox 2.0
apache pdfbox 2.0
apache pdfbox 2.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
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