CVE-2014-3574

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Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumpt

Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.12569

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 6% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood

Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

apache poi<= 3.10

apache poiall versions

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Affected Packages

Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.

Maven org.apache.poi:poi MODERATE fixed in 3.10.1

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Scoring & Timeline

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD04 Sep 2014 · 05:55 PM

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Vendor Advisories

rhsaRHSA-2015:1009Low
rhsaRHSA-2014:1400Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2014:1399Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2014:1398Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2014:1370Moderate

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/59943

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http://secunia.com/advisories/60419

http://secunia.com/advisories/61766

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759

http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txtVendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69648

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95768

https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installationsPatchVendor Advisory

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