Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2175

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date June 1, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory