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

Severity

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0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-TIKA-327251
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018
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Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-11761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable 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.