gsd-2018-11761
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
Aliases
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CVE-2018-11761


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