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ubuntu-cve-2016-5000

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2016-08-05 14:59

Modified

2025-10-24 04:45

Summary

Details

The XLSX2CSV example in Apache POI before 3.14 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted OpenXML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      negligible

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5000	REPORT
	https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=146921513313216&w=2	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5000	REPORT

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CVE-2016-5000 (GCVE-0-2016-5000)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

6 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538981/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92100	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037741	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apa…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html	x_refsource_MISC
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2016-07-22 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-5000 (GCVE-0-2016-5000)

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