7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-11761

Published: 19/09/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 446
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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In Apache Tika 01 to 118, 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 ...

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