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CVE-2026-54082 (GCVE-0-2026-54082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-29 15:14 – Updated: 2026-07-29 15:14

Title

veraPDF-validatio: Use of Default `DocumentBuilderFactory` leads to XXE When Processing Untrusted PDFs

Summary

veraPDF validation model is an implementation of the veraPDF validation model. From 1.25.73 until 1.30.2 and 1.31.71, veraPDF-validation contains an XML External Entity vulnerability in PDFAValidator.validate(...) and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender(), where default DocumentBuilderFactory parsing of rich-text annotation or form-field values and XFA configurations in untrusted PDFs can allow local file disclosure and outbound network requests. This issue is fixed in versions 1.30.2 and 1.31.71.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation/sec…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation/pull/730	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation/com…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation/com…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
veraPDF	veraPDF-validation	Affected: >= 1.17.35, < 1.30.2 Affected: >= 1.31.1, < 1.31.71

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GHSA-CG9X-G3GM-H5H6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-29 15:14 – Updated: 2026-07-29 15:14

Summary

veraPDF-validatio: Use of Default `DocumentBuilderFactory` leads to XXE When Processing Untrusted PDFs

Details

Summary

veraPDF-validation has an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in two PDF parsing paths (validate and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender()). A malicious/crafted PDF supplied to a veraPDF consumer can lead to the expansion of external entities while parsing rich-text annotation/form-field values or XFA configurations, allowing local file disclosure and potentially outbound network requests depending on the runtime (host) environment.

Details

Consumers that utilise either the PDFAValidator.validate(...) or GFPDAcroForm(acroForm).getdynamicRender() APIs to process untrusted PDFs are vulnerable to XXE exploits.

Both vulnerable paths share the same root cause: the underlying source binds a default DocumentBuilderFactory and immediately calls newDocumentBuilder() which does not disable parsing of DTDs, external entities, XInclude, or external resource access directives in XML schemas.

This is an XXE vulnerability affecting applications that use veraPDF's affected APIs to parse or validate untrusted PDFs.

An attacker could craft a PDF that includes crafted XML external entities that when processed by vulnerable consumers could lead to local file disclosure and server-side outbound requests to attacker-controlled endpoints, depending on JVM XML parser behavior and network controls on the host.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-54082 (GCVE-0-2026-54082)

GHSA-CG9X-G3GM-H5H6

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