UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11761
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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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11761, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/4, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11761
Affected packages
Package
Name: tika
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
1.5-2
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
