Since the release of iText 5.5.13 the iText 5 product line has transitioned to be in maintenance mode, meaning it only receives security related releases. While iText 5 is now EOL, we want to make sure that our users who have developed their solutions using iText 5 can safely continue using it.
For this particular release, we’ve backported a security bug fix from iText 7.2.0 and 7.1.17 to resolve a vulnerability that allowed the use of GhostScript in an unpredictable manner. See CVE-2021-43113 for more information.
In addition, we have updated the Apache XML Security for Java (org.apache.santuario:xmlsec) dependency to version 1.5.8 from version 1.5.6.
The Bouncy Castle Crypto API for Java has also been updated to version 1.67 due to a flaw in the OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword() method present in 1.65 and 1.66. This was disclosed in CVE-2020-28052, see the link for more details.
Note that if you use some of the older Java versions (Java 1.5-1.8) you might need to update the bouncy castle dependency to a different specific distribution. On Maven it's org.bouncycastle.bcprov-jdk15to18.
"Further Note (users of Oracle JVM 1.7 or earlier, users of "pre-Java 9" toolkits): As of 1.63 we have started including signed jars for "jdk15to18", if you run into issues with either signature validation in the JCE or the presence of the multi-release versions directory in the regular "jdk15on" jar files try the "jdk15to18" jars instead."
An example of an exception which might occur if the “standard" bouncy-castle distribution is used together with older Java versions:
java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: 1.2.840.113549.3.2 KeyGenerator not available.
iText 5.5.13.2
core
security update of bouncy castle dependency
iText 5.5.13.1
core
security fix for clearer signatures validation
security improvement around decompression bombs
iText 5.5.13
iText 5.5.13 is a maintenance release that rolls up 4 bugfixes for iText 5 Core from the past 5 months:
As of this release XFA Worker is no longer supported on .NET 2.0 - instead you need to use .NET 4.0.
Support has been added for License Key Library 3.0.1. Users on License Key Library 1.0.x should migrate to 3.0.1.
3 bugfixes for iText 5 Core 5.5.13.
1 bugfix for XFA Worker5.5.13 (commercial add-on, not on GitHub).
Please be informed that at the same time we release pdfXFA1.0.3, an add-on for iText 7. All bugfixes for XFA Worker 5.5.13 were ported to pdfXFA 1.0.3.
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