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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-23907

Apache PDFBox Examples: Path Traversal in PDFBox ExtractEmbeddedFiles Example Code

Description

This issue affects the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example in Apache PDFBox: from 2.0.24 through 2.0.35, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. The ExtractEmbeddedFiles example contains a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) because the filename that is obtained from PDComplexFileSpecification.getFilename() is appended to the extraction path. Users who have copied this example into their production code should review it to ensure that the extraction path is acceptable. The example has been changed accordingly, now the initial path and the extraction paths are converted into canonical paths and it is verified that extraction path contains the initial path. The documentation has also been adjusted.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Examples

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.0.24 to ≤ 2.0.35affected
  • 3.0.0 to ≤ 3.0.6affected

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