Vigil@nce - Apache PDFBox: external XML entity injection
November 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 09/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can transmit malicious XML data to Apache PDFBox, in
order to read a file, scan sites, or trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Apache-PDFBox-external-XML-entity-injection-30277