CVE-2016-4434

HIGH7.8EPSS 0.41%

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

Published: 10/17/2018Modified: 11/8/2023
Also known as:GHSA-4xr4-4c65-hj7fDEBIAN-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 packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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