CVE-2017-5644 (GCVE-0-2017-5644)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:11
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Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • XXE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2017-03-20 00:00
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