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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.1293
CVE-2019-0228: Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability
15 April 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Apache PDFBox
Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
Operating System: Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-0228
Original Bulletin:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201904.mbox/%3c1b8bd73c-a3be-9411-113f-0108a6f2966e@apache.org%3e
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CVE-2019-0228: Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability
Severity: Important
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox 2.0.14
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.
Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 2.0.15
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Kurt Boberg from DocuSign
[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing
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