vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-4434): tika vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 30, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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