org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox@1.8.12 vulnerabilities

  • latest version

    3.0.2

  • latest non vulnerable version

  • first published

    15 years ago

  • latest version published

    2 months ago

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Direct Vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in the org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Vulnerability Vulnerable Version
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Denial of Service (DoS)

org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.

How to fix Denial of Service (DoS)?

Upgrade org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox to version 2.0.12, 1.8.16 or higher.

[1.8.0,1.8.15) [2.0.0,2.0.12)
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Authentication Bypass

org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. The ReadOnly permissions are not called in the StandardSecurityHandler, allowing all users to edit the PDF file although the are not the owners.

How to fix Authentication Bypass?

Upgrade org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox to versions 1.8.13 ,2.0.2 or higher.

[,1.8.13) [2.0.0,2.0.2)