cvelistv5 - CVE-2018-11761

CVE-2018-11761

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-09-19 14:00

Modified

2024-09-16 18:39

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
security@apache.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@apache.org	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
security@apache.org	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
security@apache.org	https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html	Patch, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache Tika

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