CVE-2018-11796
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- 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
- 6.88% probability · 94th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-611
- Affected
- apache/tika
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105585Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/88de8350cda9b184888ec294c813c5bd8a2081de8fd3666f8904bc05%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190903-0002/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105585Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/88de8350cda9b184888ec294c813c5bd8a2081de8fd3666f8904bc05%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190903-0002/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.