CVE-2017-5644
Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - security@apache.org
- Published
- 2017-03-24
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-776
Affected products
References
- http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prio…
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96983
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
