Critical
Security advisory
Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-0228
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apache PDFBox 2.0.14 does not properly initialize the XML parser, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF.
osv:CVE-2019-0228
Complete source record
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