CVE-2024-52800Potential XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability in veraPDF CLI
- 2.3LowCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Low2.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Low2.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.3.
Affected products
- affected <= 1.26.1
Affected packages
Affected packages9
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.verapdf:coreGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:core-arlingtonGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:core-jakartaGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:libraryGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:library-arlingtonGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:library-jakartaGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:verapdf-libraryGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:verapdf-library-arlingtonGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakartaGHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-3420 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4cx5-89vm-833x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-52800)Record last updated .