Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
Apache PDFBox Examples versions 2.0.24 through 2.0.36 and 3.0.0 through 3.0.7 are affected by a path traversal flaw in the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example. A user with write access to a directory could be targeted with a malicious PDF that causes writes to paths sharing that directory's name as a prefix, such as /home/ABCDEF when the target is /home/ABC. Upgrade to version 2.0.37 or 3.0.8. Users who copied this example into production code should apply the corrected change from the project repository.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | Medium | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | GitHub Advisory Database |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0072, the 54th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC Confirmed by OSV