XML External Entity injection in Apache POI - CVE-2014-3574

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XML External Entity injection in Apache POI - CVE-2014-3574

Published: February 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86352
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3574
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted OOXML file to the affected application and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Apache POI
IBM Intelligent Operations Center
Atlas eDiscovery Process Management
Fedora
apache-poi
IBM Cognos Controller

How to mitigate CVE-2014-3574

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

Apache POI - addressed in versions 3.10.1, 3.11-20141221
IBM Intelligent Operations Center - update to 5.2.4
apache-poi - addressed in versions 3.10.1-1.fc21, 3.10.1-2.fc21
Atlas eDiscovery Process Management - update to 6.0.3.9.7
IBM Cognos Controller - addressed in versions 11.0.1 FP7, 11.1.2 FP1

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