CVE-2026-33929

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 51% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: April 14, 2026 (87 days ago)
Last Modified: April 14, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in Apache PDFBox. A local user with writing rights to a specific directory could be exploited via a malicious PDF file when using the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example. This path traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability, which allows an attacker to access files and directories outside of the intended directory, enables arbitrary file write attempts.

CWE

CWE-22

Affected Products

Red Hat AMQ Broker 7Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4Red Hat Data Grid 8Red Hat Fuse 7Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Packstreams for Apache Kafka 2

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 lists.apache.org