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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-01 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:17
VLAI
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
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2016-05-27 00:00
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