CVE-2018-11761

unknown
Published 2018-10-17 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11761

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11761.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1.20-1
debian debiansidfixed1.20-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core>=0.1,<1.19.11.19.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.