CVE-2018-11761

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2018-09-19
CWE:
CWE-776
Bugzilla:
1632462: CVE-2018-11761 tika: XML entity expansion vulnerability due to lack of limit configuration

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the 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.

Find out more about CVE-2018-11761 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-eclipse46-tika Affected
Red Hat Satellite 5 tika Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 tika-core Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 camel-tika Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 tika-core Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 tika-core Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 tika-core Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 tika-core Under investigation

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