VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-11761
They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 8.57%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 8.57% probability · 95th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-611
- Affected
- apache/tika · oracle/business process management suite
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.