PT-2014-5401 · Apache · Apache Poi

Published 2014-09-04 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2014-3574

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache POI versions prior to 3.10.1 Apache POI versions 3.11.x prior to 3.11-beta2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption and crash, via a crafted OOXML file. This is achieved through an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Recommendations For Apache POI versions prior to 3.10.1, update to version 3.10.1 or later. For Apache POI versions 3.11.x prior to 3.11-beta2, update to version 3.11-beta2 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3574

GHSA-5WFP-8643-C58X

MGASA-2014-0550

Affected Products

Apache Poi

References · 27

• https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0550.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3574 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/137802.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0550 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3574 · Vendor Advisory
• http://apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3574 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3574 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/apache/poi · Note