CVE-2016-4434

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4434
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4434.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4434
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2017-09-30T01:29:00.413Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:27:14.272240Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/tika

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/tika
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c0d2b4fc5a8b06d3939253853e0fed005fd7771a

Affected versions

1.*

1.12
1.12-rc1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4434.json"