CVE-2014-3574

Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-09-04

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Poi (Apache)

References

• http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59943
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60419
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61766
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
• http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69648
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95768
• https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-…