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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-0228

critical

CVE-2019-0228

pdfbox: XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF

Published Modified CWE 611
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox2.0.15

References

All 18 references

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