XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting tika package, versions <1.20-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-TIKA-327250
  • published 25 Sep 2018
  • disclosed 19 Sep 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tika to version 1.20-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tika package and not the tika package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.