Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file.
Advisories for Maven/Org.apache.pdfbox/Pdfbox package
2021
Excessive Iteration
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file.
Uncontrolled Ressource Consumption
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox and pri versions.
Excessive Iteration
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading a file.
2019
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
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.
2018
Improper Input Validation
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long-running computation when parsing the page tree.
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in the AFMParser.
2016
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Apache PDFBox does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.