CVE-2024-28109
Potential XSLT injection vulnerability when using policy files
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.1 High
- Published
- Mar 28, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 4, 2024
Description
veraPDF-library is a PDF/A validation library. Executing policy checks using custom schematron files invokes an XSL transformation that could lead to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.1 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
veraPDF-libraryveraPDF |
|
References
- https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/security/advisories/GHSA-qxqf-2mfx-x8jw
- https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues/1415
- https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/commit/614ffa477a2cf0819e4b0df1ab133610e0da25fb
- https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/commit/9386ecbe1a1d1fb9e886d19df28851ed07890d9f
- https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/commit/d5314cbdf4e058e0716f80dbdad2dbd8d96e6bfe
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