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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2019-0228)

Update to 2.0.16

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
422950	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-c9jj-3wvg-q65h)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
422950	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-c9jj-3wvg-q65h)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
129630	Fedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
128625	Fedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
128624	Fedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical

Detections

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CVE-2019-0228

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