CVE-2024-28109 Potential XSLT injection vulnerability when using policy files
Attackers can achieve remote code execution by providing malicious custom schematron files during policy checks in the veraPDF library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-28109?
CVE-2024-28109 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in veraPDF-library, published on 28 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
veraPDF-library is a PDF/A validation library. Executing policy checks using custom schematron files invokes an XSL transformation that could lead to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.24.2.
Weakness: CWE-91
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28109?
18 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.verapdf:verapdf-library, org.verapdf:core and org.verapdf:core-arlington.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.verapdf:verapdf-library Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:verapdf-library Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:core Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:core Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:core-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
org.verapdf:core-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
12 more packages
org.verapdf:core-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:core-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:library Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:library Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:library-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
org.verapdf:library-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
org.verapdf:library-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:library-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-arlington Maven | All versions | 1.25.127 |
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
org.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakarta Maven | All versions | 1.24.2 |
How do I fix CVE-2024-28109?
Upgrade org.verapdf:verapdf-library to 1.24.2 or later.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2024-28109 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28109 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qxqf-2mfx-x8jw.