CVE-2016-4434 (GCVE-0-2016-4434)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-29 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:32
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538500/100/0/threaded
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tika-dev/201605.mbox/%3C1705136517.1175366.1464278135251.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538500/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tika-dev/201605.mbox/%3C1705136517.1175366.1464278135251.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
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