XML External Entity injection in PDFBox - CVE-2019-0228

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XML External Entity injection in PDFBox - CVE-2019-0228

Published: May 24, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU28194
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0228
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted  XFDF file to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.


Affected software

PDFBox
Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server
Oracle Banking Liquidity Management
Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service
Fedora
pdfbox

How to mitigate CVE-2019-0228

Install updates from vendor's website.

PDFBox - update to 2.0.15
pdfbox - addressed in versions 2.0.16-1.fc29, 2.0.16-1.fc30, 2.0.16-1.fc31

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