CVE-2016-2175
It was found that the parsing of XMP and other XML formats in PDF by Apache PDFBox would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.
Find out more about CVE-2016-2175 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.4 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Low |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4 | RHSA-2017:0248 | 2017-02-02 |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.3 | RHSA-2017:0272 | 2017-02-14 |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 | RHSA-2017:0179 | 2017-01-19 |
| Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 | RHSA-2017:0179 | 2017-01-19 |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4 | RHSA-2017:0249 | 2017-02-02 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | pdfbox | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | pdfbox | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | pdfbox | Not affected |