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CVE-2014-3574
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…
Medium4.3EPSS 7.1%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.1% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.poi:poiGHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x (opens in a new tab)
References (13)
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 69648 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://poi.apache.org/changes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 61766 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1370 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60419 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- apache-poi-cve20143574-dos(95768) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1400 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1398 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 59943 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1399 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5wfp-8643-c58x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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