Fluid Attacks Database

Description

High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	tika	>=0 <1.20-1	1.20-1
maven	org.apache.tika:tika-parsers	>=0.1 <=1.18	1.19
maven	org.apache.tika:tika-core	>=0.1 <1.19.1	1.19.1

Aliases

1. CVE-2018-117612. NVD-2018-117613. OSV-DEBIAN-2018-117614. OSV-2018-117615. GHSA-6jq2-789q-fff26. GCVE-2018-117617. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2018-11761

References

1. https://github.com/brianwrf/CVE-2018-117612. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1055143. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E4. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E5. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

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