Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5644 - XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Apache POI

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

apache

CWE-776

NVD

Published: 2017-03-24

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Apache Apache POI 0.1 Apache POI 0.2 Apache POI 0.3 Apache POI 0.4 Apache POI 0.5 Apache POI 0.6 Apache POI 0.7 Apache POI 0.10.0 Apache POI 0.11.0 Apache POI 0.12.0 Apache POI 0.13.0 Apache POI 0.14.0 Apache POI 1.0.0 Apache POI 1.0.1 Apache POI 1.0.2 Apache POI 1.1.0 Apache POI 1.2.0 Apache POI 1.5 Apache POI 1.5.1 Apache POI 1.7 Apache POI 1.8 Apache POI 1.10 Apache POI 2.0 Apache POI 2.5 Apache POI 2.5.1 Apache POI 3.0 Apache POI 3.0.1 Apache POI 3.0.2 Apache POI 3.1 Apache POI 3.2 Apache POI 3.5 Apache POI 3.6 Apache POI 3.7 Apache POI 3.8 Apache POI 3.9 Apache POI 3.10 Apache POI 3.11 Apache POI 3.13 Apache POI 3.14	67

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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