Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') Affecting rh-eclipse46-tika-serialization package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.38% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHECLIPSE46TIKASERIALIZATION-4555053
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-11761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-776  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rh-eclipse46-tika-serialization.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-eclipse46-tika-serialization package and not the rh-eclipse46-tika-serialization package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.