VDB
CVE-2016-2175
CVE-2016-2175
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 5.89% · 90.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
5.89%
90.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | libpdfbox-java | 0, 1:1.8.10-1, 1:1.8.11+dfsg-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- malicious-pdf.py (github-poc)
- malicious-pdf.py (github-poc)
- malicious-pdf.py (github-poc)
- malicious-pdf.py (github-poc)
- malicious-pdf.py (github-poc)
Timeline
- Jun 1, 2016 CVE Published
- Oct 9, 2018 CVE Updated
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2175 third-party-advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/419 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2175 third-party-advisory