CVE-2025-31672

Severity
5.3MEDIUM
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 9
Latest updateJan 15

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache POI. The issue affects the parsing of OOXML format files like xlsx, docx and pptx. These file formats are basically zip files and it is possible for malicious users to add zip entries with duplicate names (including the path) in the zip. In this case, products reading the affected file could read different data because 1 of the zip entries with the duplicate name is selected over another but different products may choose a different zip entry. Th

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages3 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Apache POI OOXML Vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in OOXML File Parsing2025-04-09
GHSA
Apache POI OOXML Vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in OOXML File Parsing2025-04-09
OSV
CVE-2025-31672: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache POI2025-04-09
CVEList
Apache POI: parsing OOXML based files (xlsx, docx, etc.), poi-ooxml could read unexpected data if underlying zip has duplicate zip entry names2025-04-09

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Fusion Middleware Risk Matrix: Oracle Database Client for Fusion Middleware (Apache POI) — CVE-2025-316722026-01-15
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Financial Services Applications Risk Matrix: Platform (Apache POI) — CVE-2025-316722025-10-15
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Fusion Middleware Risk Matrix: Oracle Business Rules (Apache POI) — CVE-2025-316722025-07-15
Red Hat
org.apache.poi/poi-ooxml: Apache POI: parsing OOXML based files (xlsx, docx, etc.), poi-ooxml could read unexpected data if underlying zip has duplicate zip entry names2025-04-09
Debian
CVE-2025-31672: libapache-poi-java - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache POI. The issue affects the par...2025
CVE-2025-31672 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.3) | Improper Input Validation vulnerabi | cvebase.io