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HistoryOct 17, 2018 - 3:43 p.m.

Apache Tika is vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack

2018-10-1715:43:25
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EPSS

0.012

Percentile

85.6%

In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika versions from 0.1 to 1.19 are therefore still vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack. Users should upgrade to 1.19.1 or later.