CVE-2016-2175

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

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.

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-06-01 20:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:59:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.0

1.8.0

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.1

1.8.1

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.2

1.8.2

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.3

1.8.3

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.4

1.8.4

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.5

1.8.5

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.6

1.8.6

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.7

1.8.7

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.8

1.8.8

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.9

1.8.9

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.10

1.8.10

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 1.8.11

1.8.11

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 2.0

2.0

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 2.0 Release Candidate 1

2.0

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 2.0 Release Candidate 2

2.0

Apache Software Foundation PDFBox 2.0 Release Candidate 3

2.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

[www-announce] 20160527 [CVE-2016-2175] Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability

Mailing List

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.html

RHSA-2017:0179

RHSA-2017:0248

RHSA-2017:0249

RHSA-2017:0272

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-3606

Third Party Advisory

20160527 [CVE-2016-2175] Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability

90902

[tika-commits] 20190802 svn commit: r1864259 [1/17] - in /tika/site: publish/ publish/1.10/ publish/1.11/ publish/1.12/ publish/1.13/ publish/1.14/ publish/1.15/ publish/1.16/ publish/1.17/ publish/1.18/ publish/1.19.1/ publish/1.19/ publish/1.20/ publish/1.21/ publish/1.22/ ...

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