CVE-2016-5000
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Apache POI's XLSX2CSV Example XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.poi:poi-examples | <3.14 | 3.14 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | poi | {"endIncluding":"3.13"} | |
References
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538981/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92100
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037741
- https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apache.org
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5000
- https://lists.apache.org/list.html?user@poi.apache.org
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5000
CWEs
CWE-611
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.