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Improper Input Validation in Apache POI

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 16, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.poi:poi (Maven)

Affected versions

< 3.10.1
= 3.11-beta1

Patched versions

3.10.1
3.11-beta2

Description

Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2022
Last updated Apr 16, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(93rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2014-3574

GHSA ID

GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x

Source code

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