UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5644
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644
Upstream
Published
2017-03-24T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:10Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libapache-poi-java

Package

Name
libapache-poi-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libapache-poi-java@3.10.1-2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.10.1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libapache-poi-java",
            "binary_version": "3.10.1-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5644.json"