Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') Affecting rh-eclipse46-tika-parsers package, versions *
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- published29 Aug 2025
- disclosed19 Sept 2018
Introduced: 19 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-11761 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rh-eclipse46-tika-parsers.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-eclipse46-tika-parsers package and not the rh-eclipse46-tika-parsers package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL: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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632462
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11761
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- 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/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html