CVE-2018-11761 (GCVE-0-2018-11761)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-19 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:39
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
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Date Public
2018-09-19 00:00
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