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    CVE-2017-5644

    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.

    Published:Mar 24, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Mar 24, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00895
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Poi

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-197 Exponential Data Expansion

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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