CVE-2018-11761

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    CVE-2018-11761

    Published: 19 Sept 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514, https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- fe7399ebe5f1d2cca553252577d0925815072b21
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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