PDFBox Vulnerability (CVE-2021-27906, CVE-2021-27807) 

Issue date: 06-07-2021
Affects versions: 14.5, 13.4, 12.6

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-220

 

Affected Product Version(s)

14.5.1, 12.6.15, 13.4.8 and previous releases.

Severity 

medium

Description

 

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.

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.

The PDFBox dependency has been updated in 14.5.2, 13.4.9 and 12.6.16.

Instructions

Customers using the 12.x, 13.x and 14.x major versions are recommended to upgrade to the latest version in that series.