GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7f Apache Tika does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers

HIGH Published 2018-10-17 Modified 2022-04-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2016-4434
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tika:tika-core
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tika:tika-core: < 1.13 → fixed in 1.13

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2016-4434 Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References