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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-31672 (CVE-2025-31672)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-04-09 12:15 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:31 – Source website

Details

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache POI. The issue affects the parsing of OOXML format files like xlsx, docx and pptx. These file formats are basically zip files and it is possible for malicious users to add zip entries with duplicate names (including the path) in the zip. In this case, products reading the affected file could read different data because 1 of the zip entries with the duplicate name is selected over another but different products may choose a different zip entry. This issue affects Apache POI poi-ooxml before 5.4.0. poi-ooxml 5.4.0 has a check that throws an exception if zip entries with duplicate file names are found in the input file. Users are recommended to upgrade to version poi-ooxml 5.4.0, which fixes the issue. Please read https://poi.apache.org/security.html for recommendations about how to use the POI libraries securely.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-31672	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31672	REPORT
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/…	REPORT
	https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69620	REPORT

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CVE-2025-31672 (GCVE-0-2025-31672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-09 11:59 – Updated: 2025-05-23 13:11

Title

Apache POI: parsing OOXML based files (xlsx, docx, etc.), poi-ooxml could read unexpected data if underlying zip has duplicate zip entry names

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-18 17:06 UTC

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1170 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69620	issue-tracking
https://lists.apache.org/thread/k14w8vcjqy4h34hh5…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/08/2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025052…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache POI	Affected: 0 , < 5.4.0 (semver)

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