vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-2175): libpdfbox-java vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 1, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

no-fix-ubuntu-packageubuntu-upgrade-libpdfbox-java
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