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ubuntu-cve-2016-2175

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2016-06-01 20:59

Modified

2025-10-24 04:45

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2175	REPORT
	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/419	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2175	REPORT

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CVE-2016-2175 (GCVE-0-2016-2175)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-01 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:17

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

12 references

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http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-a…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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Date Public

2016-05-27 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-2175 (GCVE-0-2016-2175)

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