Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs in Apache POI
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Mar 24, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
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.
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