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CVE-2016-2175

7.8 highEPSS 3.8%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox<1.8.121.8.12
GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox>=2.0.0 <2.0.12.0.1

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