CVE-2017-5644

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 24, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 29, 2017

Description

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache POIApache Software Foundation	before 3.15Affected

References

96983vdb-entry
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prior+to+3.15

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