Pdfbox vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Pdfbox is made by Apache. We track 8 published vulnerabilities in it, across 69 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Pdfbox, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 9.5%CVE-2019-0228Critical
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.
- 4.8%CVE-2018-8036Medium
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.
- 3.8%CVE-2016-2175High
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.
- 3.6%CVE-2021-31811Medium
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file.
- 3.5%CVE-2018-11797Medium
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.
- 3.3%CVE-2021-27906Medium
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file.
- 3.1%CVE-2021-31812Medium
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file.
- 3.0%CVE-2021-27807Medium
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file.
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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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We track 8 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Pdfbox, across 69 versions.
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