CVE-2019-0228

highpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.095 · 95 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

9.45% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

40 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-611USprimaryCWE-611USCWE-611US

affected products (40)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a Apache PDFBox≤ Apache PDFBox 2.0.14enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation PDFBox≤ 2.0.14fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 30fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 29fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Communications Messaging Server≤ 8.1.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 16.0.6fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Retail Xstore Point of Service≤ 18.0.3fstec_bduRU
apache james= 3.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:james:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache james= 3.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:james:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache pdfbox= 2.0.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:pdfbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 29nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 30nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking corporate lending process management= 14.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking corporate lending process management= 14.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking corporate lending process management= 14.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_corporate_lending_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking credit facilities process management= 14.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_credit_facilities_process_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking supply chain finance= 14.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_supply_chain_finance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle banking supply chain finance= 14.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:banking_supply_chain_finance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-c9jj-3wvg-q65hVulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox2019-07-05ghsa · osvUS
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.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-04-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (58)

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