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CVE-2016-2175
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-06-01T20:59:01.747 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:35.237

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.

Affected products

apache — pdfbox

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References

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