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CVE-2016-2175

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
01/06/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:1.8.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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