| Name | CVE-2018-11761 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tika (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.5-1+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.20-1 | fixed |
| sid, bullseye | 1.22-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tika | source | (unstable) | 1.20-1 | | | |
Notes
[jessie] - tika <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/4
When fixing this issue the fix needs to be made complete to not open
CVE-2018-11796. The full fix is only in 1.19.1 onwards.