CVE-2016-5000 (GCVE-0-2016-5000)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
Summary
The XLSX2CSV example in Apache POI before 3.14 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted OpenXML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-07-22 00:00
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