GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4HighCVSS 7.5
XWiki vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through attachments
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
A user able to attach a file to a page can post a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed by Tika, could cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption.
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.
Workarounds
The workaround is to download commons-compress 1.24 and replace the one located in XWiki WEB-INF/lib/ folder.
References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org
- Email us at Security Mailing List
🎯 Affected products3
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war:>= 14.10, < 14.10.18
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war:>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.3
- maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war:>= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.8-rc-1
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796
- https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21651
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4