CVE-2016-2175
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:1.8.12-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:1.8.12-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:1.8.12-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:1.8.12-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:1.8.12-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox | <1.8.12 | 1.8.12 |
| Maven | org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox | >=2.0.0,<2.0.1 | 2.0.1 |
References
- http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201605.mbox/%3C83a03bcf-f86b-4688-37b5-615c080291d8%40apache.org%3E
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538503/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90902
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad5fbc86c1d1821ae1b963e8561ab6d6a5f66b2848e84f5a31477f54%40%3Ccommits.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2175
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad5fbc86c1d1821ae1b963e8561ab6d6a5f66b2848e84f5a31477f54@%3Ccommits.tika.apache.org%3E
- http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201605.mbox/%3C83a03bcf-f86b-4688-37b5-615c080291d8@apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2175
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.