Vulnerability CVE-2018-11761
Published: 2018-09-19

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-611

 (Information Exposure Through XML External Entity Reference)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Oracle -> Business process management suite 
Apache -> TIKA 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
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