CVE-2017-5644

EPSS 4.6%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 4.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

24 Mar 2017Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially crafted OOXML file, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation · Apache POI

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References

http://poi.apache.org/#20+March+2017+-+CVE-2017-5644+-+Possible+DOS+%28Denial+of+Service%29+in+Apache+POI+versions+prior+to+3.15 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96983