XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tika  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-TIKA-651744
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tika package and not the tika package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.