CVE-2016-4434 (GCVE-0-2016-4434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:32
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538500/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tika-de… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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