CVE-2024-21651

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    CVE-2024-21651

    Published: 8 Jan 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: XWiki Denial of Service attack through attachments

    Details: 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.

    References: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/21xxx/CVE-2024-21651.json, https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21651

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 719ede2f8510fa69498761659de8d65eec5817db
    Fixed -cde5f4217886d90fb7bf5d949d1524d8b7fa4a25

    Affected versions

    xwiki-commons-14.10.17
    xwiki-commons-14.10.16
    xwiki-commons-14.10.15
    xwiki-commons-14.10.14
    xwiki-commons-14.10.13
    xwiki-commons-14.10.12
    xwiki-commons-14.10.11
    xwiki-commons-14.10.10
    xwiki-commons-14.10.9
    xwiki-commons-14.10.8
    xwiki-commons-14.10.7
    xwiki-commons-14.10.6
    xwiki-commons-14.10.5
    xwiki-commons-14.10.4
    xwiki-commons-14.10.3
    xwiki-commons-14.10.2
    xwiki-commons-14.10.1
    xwiki-commons-14.10

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High