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CVE-2018-11796 (GCVE-0-2018-11796)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-09 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:19
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Summary
In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika versions from 0.1 to 1.19 are therefore still vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack. Users should upgrade to 1.19.1 or later.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service Vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika Affected: Apache Tomcat 0.1 to 1.19
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Date Public
2018-10-09 00:00
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