Vulnerability CVE-2014-3574
Published: 2014-09-04

Description:
Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Apache POI 3.10.1-20140818 security issues with OOXML
Multiple
05.09.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> POI 

 References:
http://poi.apache.org/changes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69648
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95768
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations
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