Tim Allison
2018-09-19 12:44:41 UTC
CVE-2018-11761: Apache Tika Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
Vulnerability
Severity: Medium
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18
Description:
Apache Tika's XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion.
They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which
can lead to a denial of service attack.
Mitigation:
Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.19 or later
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Renfei (Brian) Wang of Amazon.
Vulnerability
Severity: Medium
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18
Description:
Apache Tika's XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion.
They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which
can lead to a denial of service attack.
Mitigation:
Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.19 or later
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Renfei (Brian) Wang of Amazon.