CVE-2014-3574

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation9 documents7 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUM
EPSS
11.1%
top 6.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Apache POI
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Mavenorg.apache.poi:poi3.11-beta1 — 3.11-beta2+1
▶Debianlibapache-poi-java< 3.10.1-1+3
▶NVDapache/poi3.10+37

Patches

Patch: lucene.apache.org ↗Patch: lucene.apache.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
Improper Input Validation in Apache POI↗2022-05-17
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OSV
Improper Input Validation in Apache POI↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2014-3574: Apache POI before 3↗2014-09-04
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OSV
CVE-2014-3574: Apache POI before 3↗2014-09-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
apache-poi: entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw↗2014-08-18
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Debian
CVE-2014-3574: libapache-poi-java - Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to...↗2014
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-3574 CVE-2014-3529 apache-poi: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2014-09-04
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-3574 apache-poi: entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw↗2014-09-04
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