CVE-2024-21651

XWiki Denial of Service attack through attachments

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jan 8, 2024
Updated: Jun 3, 2025
Reserved: Dec 29, 2023

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. A user able to attach a file to a page can post a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed by Tika, could cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
xwiki-platformxwiki	>= 14.10, < 14.10.18Affected >= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.3Affected >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.8-rc-1Affected

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