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Denial of Service in Apache POI

2021-01-1419:18:22
CWE-835
GitHub Advisory Database
github.com
95

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.6%

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 configurations

Vulners
Node
org.apache.poi\Matchpoi
CPENameOperatorVersion
org.apache.poi:poilt3.17

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.6%