CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5644
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-776
Description
Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Affected configurations
• apache poi (<= 3.14)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness
References
- http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prior+to+3.15 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96983 www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html www.oracle.com
- http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prior+to+3.15 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96983 www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html www.oracle.com