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    CVE-2016-4434

    Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

    Published:May 26, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Sep 29, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00415
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Tika
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Bpms
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Virtualization
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Brms Platform

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-221 Data Serialization External Entities Blowup

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-66756 (CVSS 6.9) — Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in Apache Tika. This issue affects Apache Tika: from 4.0.…
    CVE-2026-66755 (CVSS 5.9) — Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 through 3.3.1…
    CVE-2025-66516 (CVSS 8.4) — Critical XXE in Apache Tika tika-core (1.13-3.2.1), tika-pdf-module (2.0.0-3.2.1) and tika-parsers (1.13-1.28.…
    CVE-2025-54988 (CVSS 8.4) — Critical XXE in Apache Tika (tika-parser-pdf-module) in Apache Tika 1.13 through and including 3.2.1 on all pl…
    CVE-2022-33879 (CVSS 3.3) — The initial fixes in CVE-2022-30126 and CVE-2022-30973 for regexes in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler we…
    CVE-2022-30973 (CVSS 5.5) — We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a regul…
    CVE-2022-25169 (CVSS 5.5) — The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.28.2 and 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memor…
    CVE-2022-30126 (CVSS 5.5) — In Apache Tika, a regular expression in our StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler…
    CVE-2021-33813 (CVSS 7.5) — An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted H…
    CVE-2021-28657 (CVSS 5.5) — A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika …

    References

    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538500/100/0/threaded
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tika-dev/201605.mbox/%3C1705136517.1175366.1464278135251.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com%3E
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538500/100/0/threaded
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tika-dev/201605.mbox/%3C1705136517.1175366.1464278135251.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com%3E

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