CVE-2018-11761
N/A
Published: September 19, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:36 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsBusiness Process Management SuiteTika
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
Description
In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105514Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5553e10bba5604117967466618f219c0cae710075819c70cfb3fb421%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3Ex_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-611
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