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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-0228 json

Vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox

published 2019-04-17 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-c9jj-3wvg-q65h , EUVD-2019-0587

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.5%
EPSS 9.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox 2.0.15

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-0228 updated cvss 5.9

pdfbox: XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 pdfbox pdfbox Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 pdfox pdfox Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 pdfbox pdfbox
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

9.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
>=2.0.14, <2.0.15
2.0.15

Affected products

  • n/a Apache PDFBox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.