🛡️ CVE-2024-28109 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-91 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

veraPDF has potential XSLT injection vulnerability when using policy files

Impact

Executing policy checks using custom schematron files invokes an XSL transformation that may theoretically lead to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.

Patches

This has been patched and users should upgrade to veraPDF v1.24.2

Workarounds

This doesn't affect the standard validation and policy checks functionality, veraPDF's common use cases. Most veraPDF users don't insert any custom XSLT code into policy profiles, which are based on Schematron syntax rather than direct XSL transforms. For users who do, only load custom policy files from sources you trust.

References

Original issue: <https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues/1415>

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28109 is classified as CWE-91: XML Injection. Untrusted data is inserted into an XML document or query, changing its structure rather than only its content.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28109 is recorded against 10 packages.

  • org.verapdf:core (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • org.verapdf:core-arlington (fixed in 1.25.127)
  • org.verapdf:core-jakarta (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • org.verapdf:library (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • org.verapdf:library-arlington (fixed in 1.25.127)
  • org.verapdf:library-jakarta (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • org.verapdf:verapdf-library (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • org.verapdf:verapdf-library-arlington (fixed in 1.25.127)
  • org.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakarta (fixed in 1.24.2)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2024 and last revised on 14 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
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github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-91
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-05-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.verapdf:core 1.24.2
org.verapdf:core-arlington 1.25.127
org.verapdf:core-jakarta 1.24.2
org.verapdf:library 1.24.2
org.verapdf:library-arlington 1.25.127
org.verapdf:library-jakarta 1.24.2
org.verapdf:verapdf-library 1.24.2
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-arlington 1.25.127
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakarta 1.24.2
unknown

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