Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11761 - XXE vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | Apache
| 29 |
| Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html