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Fencer Intel
high 7.8

CVE-2016-2175 json

High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox

published 2016-06-01 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98 , EUVD-2018-0498

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox 1.8.12, 2.0.1
  • libpdfbox-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.8.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2175

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2175 updated cvss 4.4

pdfbox: XML External Entity vulnerability

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 pdfbox pdfbox Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 pdfbox pdfbox Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 pdfbox pdfbox
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 pdfbox pdfbox
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 5 pdfbox
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0179
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0249
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0248
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0272
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0179
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  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 pdfbox pdfbox
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
<1.8.12
>=2.0.0, <2.0.1
1.8.12
2.0.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.