CVE-2024-52800 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2024-52800

Potential XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability in veraPDF CLI

Vulnerability Description

veraPDF is an open source PDF/A validation library. Executing policy checks using custom schematron files via the CLI invokes an XSL transformation that may theoretically lead to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. This doesn't affect the standard validation and policy checks functionality, veraPDF's common use cases. Most veraPDF users don't insert any custom XSLT code into policy profiles, which are based on Schematron syntax rather than direct XSL transforms. For users who do, only load custom policy files from sources you trust. This issue has not yet been patched. Users are advised to be cautious of XSLT code until a patch is available.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

veraPDF-library
Vulnerable Versions:
<= 1.26.1

Timeline

Official Publish: November 29th, 2024
Last Modified: December 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)