CVE-2018-11796

Summary

CVECVE-2018-11796
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-09 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:51:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika versions from 0.1 to 1.19 are therefore still vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack. Users should upgrade to 1.19.1 or later.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Tika All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Pony Mail! CONFIRM lists.apache.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
August 2019 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981049 Java (maven) Security Update for org.apache.tika:tika-core (GHSA-h8q5-g2cj-qr5h)

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