veraPDF-validatio: Use of Default `DocumentBuilderFactory` leads to XXE When Processing Untrusted PDFs

Summary veraPDF-validation has an XML External Entity XXE vulnerability in two PDF parsing paths validate and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender. A malicious/crafted PDF supplied to a veraPDF consumer can lead to the expansion of external entities while parsing rich-text annotation/form-field values o...

CVE-2026-54082

veraPDF validation model is an implementation of the veraPDF validation model. From 1.25.73 until 1.30.2 and 1.31.71, veraPDF-validation contains an XML External Entity vulnerability in PDFAValidator.validate... and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender, where default DocumentBuilderFactory parsing of...