### [CVE-2016-2175](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2175)
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### Description

Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137214/Apache-PDFBox-1.8.11-2.0.0-XML-Injection.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/0xCyberY/CVE-T4PDF
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/Anonymous-Phunter/PHunter
- https://github.com/CGCL-codes/PHunter
- https://github.com/LibHunter/LibHunter