{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2175","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:37Z","published":"2016-06-01T20:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-2175"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2175"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/419"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2175"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libpdfbox-java","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpdfbox-java@1:1.8.11+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:1.8.7+dfsg-1","1:1.8.10-1","1:1.8.10-2","1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libfontbox-java","binary_version":"1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"},{"binary_name":"libjempbox-java","binary_version":"1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"},{"binary_name":"libpdfbox-java","binary_version":"1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2175.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}