Directory Traversal Affecting libpdfbox2-java package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-16069564
  • published15 Apr 2026
  • disclosed14 Apr 2026

Introduced: 14 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-33929  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 libpdfbox2-java.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpdfbox2-java package and not the libpdfbox2-java package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Apache PDFBox Examples.

This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.36, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.7.

Users are recommended to update to version 2.0.37 or 3.0.8 once available. Until then, they should apply the fix provided in GitHub PR 427.

The ExtractEmbeddedFiles example contained a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) mentioned in CVE-2026-23907. However the change in the releases 2.0.36 and 3.0.7 is flawed because it doesn't consider the file path separator. Because of that, a user having writing rights on /home/ABC could be victim to a malicious PDF resulting in a write attempt to any path starting with /home/ABC, e.g. "/home/ABCDEF".

Users who have copied this example into their production code should apply the mentioned change. The example has been changed accordingly and is available in the project repository.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1