This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting apache pdfbox (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-33929 | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Apache PDFBox Examples. This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.36, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.7. Users are recommended to update to version 2.0.37 or 3.0.8 once available. Until then, they should apply the fix provided in GitHub PR 427. The ExtractEmbeddedFiles example contained a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) mentioned in CVE-2026-2390 | [email protected] | 4.3 | 0.71% | 2026-04-14 | 2026-04-20 |
| CVE-2026-23907 | This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.35, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. The ExtractEmbeddedFiles example contains a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) because the filename that is obtained from PDComplexFileSpecification.getFilename() is appended to the extraction path. Users who have copied this example into their production code should review it to ensure that the extraction path is acceptable. The example has been changed accordin | [email protected] | 5.3 | 0.89% | 2026-03-10 | 2026-03-13 |
| CVE-2021-31812 | In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.23 and prior 2.0.x versions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 3.05% | 2021-06-12 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2021-31811 | In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.23 and prior 2.0.x versions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 3.45% | 2021-06-12 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2021-27906 | A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 3.34% | 2021-03-19 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2021-27807 | A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 2.98% | 2021-03-19 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2019-0228 | 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. | [email protected] | 9.8 | 9.45% | 2019-04-17 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-11797 | In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 4.02% | 2018-10-05 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2018-8036 | In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 4.83% | 2018-07-03 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2016-2175 | Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 4.52% | 2016-06-01 | 2026-05-06 |