CVE-2016-4434

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
Related
Published
2017-09-30T01:29:00Z
Modified
2025-04-20T03:18:56.752621Z
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

Debian:11 / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tika?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.18-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

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

Affected versions

1.*

1.12
1.12-rc1