GHSA-523c-xh4g-mh5m

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    GHSA-523c-xh4g-mh5m

    Published: 14 Jan 2021Last Modified: 9 Jun 2026

    Summary: Denial of Service in Apache POI

    Details: Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks: - Infinite Loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros (POI bugs 61338 and 61294) - Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS (POI bugs 52372 and 61295)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.apache.poi:poi

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.poi/poi

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.17

    Affected versions

    3.0-FINAL

    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