GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7fHighCVSS 7.8

Apache Tika does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers

Published
October 17, 2018
Last Modified
January 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-4434 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.apache.tika:tika-core:< 1.13

🔗 References (8)