CVE-2018-11761 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@3Cdev.tika.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org3E https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5