iText PDF Library versions 2.0.8, 5.5.11, and 7.0.2 suffer from an XML external entity injection vulnerability. The attack can be carried out by submitting a malicious PDF to an iText application that parses XML data. By providing a malicious XXE payloads inside the XML data that resides in the PDF, an attacker can for example extract files or forge requests on the server.
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