CVE-2016-2175

Summary

CVECVE-2016-2175
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-06-01 20:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:31:00 UTC
DescriptionApache 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.0 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.1 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.10 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.11 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.2 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.3 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.4 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.5 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.6 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.7 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.8 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.9 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc3 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.0 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.1 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.10 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.11 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.2 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.3 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.4 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.5 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.6 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.7 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.8 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 1.8.9 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0 rc3 All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[CVE-2016-2175] Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability mail-archives.us.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3606-1 libpdfbox-java DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Apache PDFBox CVE-2016-2175 XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
[Apache-SVN] Revision 1739565 CONFIRM svn.apache.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Apache PDFBox 1.8.11 / 2.0.0 / XML Injection ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
[Apache-SVN] Revision 1739564 CONFIRM svn.apache.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[CVE-2016-2175] Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability MLIST mail-archives.us.apache.org Mailing List
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981324 Java (maven) Security Update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98)
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