CVE-2019-0228: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

April 17, 2019 (updated July 8, 2019)

Apache PDFBox does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF.

References

lists.apache.org/thread.html/1a3756557f8cb02790b7183ccf7665ae23f608a421c4f723113bca79@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0228

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