CVE-2018-11761
HIGH7.5EPSS 11.0%High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core
Published: 10/17/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/tikafrom 0, < 1.20-1
- Maven/org.apache.tika:tika-core>= 0.1, < 1.19.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jq2-789q-fff2
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11761
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11761
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514