/usr/share/maven-repo/com/lowagie/itext/1.4/itext-1.4.jar is in libitext1-java 1.4-6.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o777.
It is a symlink to /usr/share/maven-repo/com/lowagie/itext/1.4/../../../../../java/itext1-1.4.jar