Jacques Le Roux created OFBIZ-7136: -------------------------------------- Summary: Ugrade PDFBox to 1.8.12 (or 2.0.1?) due to vulnerability Key: OFBIZ-7136 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7136 Project: OFBiz Issue Type: Sub-task Components: framework Affects Versions: Trunk Reporter: Jacques Le Roux Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
CVE-2016-2175: Apache PDFBox XML External Entity vulnerability Severity: Important Versions Affected: Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.11 Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well Description: Apache PDFBox parses different XML data within PDF files such as XMP and the initialization of the XML parsers did not protect against XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities. According to www.owasp.org [1]: "This attack may lead to the disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, server side request forgery, port scanning from the perspective of the machine where the parser is located, and other system impacts." Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.12 respectively 2.0.1 Credit: This issue was discovered by Arthur Khashaev (https://khashaev.ru), Seulgi Kim, Mesut Timur and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. [1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)