CVE-2026-23907

CVE-2026-23907: Apache PDFBox Examples: Path Traversal in PDFBox ExtractEmbeddedFiles Example Code

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache PDFBox Examples
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published March 10, 2026
Last update March 10, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

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.

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Disclosure timeline

March 10, 2026 CVE published
March 10, 2026 Record updated