[jira] [Created] (OFBIZ-7136) Ugrade PDFBox to 1.8.12 (or 2.0.1?) due to vulnerability

[Nicolas Malin (Jira)]

Jacques Le Roux created OFBIZ-7136:
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             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





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