XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tika (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1910-TIKA-666166
published30 Sept 2017
disclosed30 Sept 2017

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Introduced: 30 Sep 2017

CVE-2016-4434 (opens in a new tab) CWE-611 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

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

Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.