CVE-2014-3574
EPSS 12.6%Improper Input Validation in Apache POI
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libapache-poi-javafrom 0, < 3.10.1-1
- Maven/org.apache.poi:poifrom 0, < 3.10.1
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3574
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3574
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/poi
- WEBhttp://poi.apache.org/changes.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html
- WEBhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95768
- WEBhttps://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations
- WEBhttps://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/branches/REL_3_10_BRANCH@1616509
- WEBhttps://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1615720
- WEBhttps://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1615731
- WEBhttps://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@1615781
- WEBhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
- WEBhttp://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt