XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox

CVE-2016-2175 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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