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7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-2175

Published: 01/06/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Apache PDFBox prior to 1.8.12 and 2.x prior to 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent malicious users to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-2175
It was found that the parsing of XMP and other XML formats in PDF by Apache PDFBox would expand entity references A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90902http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538503/100/0/threadedhttp://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201605.mbox/%3C83a03bcf-f86b-4688-37b5-615c080291d8%40apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad5fbc86c1d1821ae1b963e8561ab6d6a5f66b2848e84f5a31477f54%40%3Ccommits.tika.apache.org%3Ehttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2175
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