CVE-2017-5644

Published: Mar 24, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache POI	affected `before 3.15`

References

96983

vdb-entry

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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prior+to+3.15

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CVE-2017-5644

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