XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpdfbox2-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-613114
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed17 Apr 2019

Introduced: 17 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-0228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

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 Ubuntu.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF.

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