🛡️ GHSA-x58j-j539-w8mv — pikepdf (CVE-2021-29421 +1 more)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-611 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in pikepdf

REJECT DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2021-29421, GHSA-ccgm-3xw4-h5p8. Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2021-29421. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2021-29421 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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 high.

Weakness class

GHSA-x58j-j539-w8mv is classified as CWE-611: XML External Entity Reference (XXE). An XML parser resolves external entities, letting a crafted document read local files or reach internal services.

Affected software

GHSA-x58j-j539-w8mv is recorded against 1 package.

  • pikepdf (from 1.2.0 up to 2.10.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 October 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugs.gentoo.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-611
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-10-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pikepdf 1.2.0 2.10.0

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